title: [The percutaneous cardiac catheterization in the diagnosis of congenital cardiac failure (author's transl)].
abstract: The results of a modified percutaneous approach of 113 cardiac catheterizations will be reported. The success rate for the right heart catheterization from the unselected cases in 63% in infants, 84% in those one to five years old and 96% in those children older than five years. For the retrograde left heart catheterization, the percutaneous approach was successful in infants in 91% (except one patient with aortic coarctation) and successful in all patients older than one year.
mesh_terms: D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D004452:Echocardiography; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000151:congenital* / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn
vernacular_title: Die perkutane Herzkathetereinführung in der Diagnostik kongenitaler Herzfehler.