Aphrodite Tzifa, Irfan Ahmed, Eric Rosenthal
Evelina Children’s Hospital and Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital.
United Kingdom
Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions
Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 2011; 78: 698-701
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.22906
Abstract
Transhepatic cardiac catheterization is now a well-established alternative when conventional venous routes for cardiac access have failed. Some operators prefer this route even routinely, due to the direct access that it offers to the right atrium and atrial septum. We report the case of a newborn baby previously operated on for infradiaphragmatic total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage who represented with right sided pulmonary vein stenosis. Transhepatic portal vein access, first reported here, gave direct access to the right upper pulmonary vein, through the patent descending vein, after the conventional transfemoral venous and retrograde arterial routes had failed.
Category
Stenosis or Obstruction of Pulmonary Veins Following Surgical Repair of Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connections
Catheter-mediated Interventions: Efficacy or Lack of Efficacy
Year of Publication: 2011
Age Focus: Pediatric
Article Type: Case Reports or Retrospective Observations in Small Groups of Patients (≤10 patients)
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