title: [Percutaneous transcardiac intraluminal balloon angioplasty for reopening an arterial thrombosis after percutaneous arterial heart catheterization in a 19-month-old patient with tetralogy of Fallot].
abstract: Cardiac catheterization is a common cause of arterial thrombosis in children. Besides heparin therapy, fibrinolysis plays a major role in the therapeutic approaches to arterial thrombosis while surgery is rarely performed in pediatric patients. We report on a 19 month old patient with tetralogy of fallot, who developed thrombosis of the right femoral artery after a retrograde interventional cardiac catheterization. We performed an antegrade balloon angioplasty of his thrombosed femoral artery using a transvenous, transcardial approach via a ventricular septal defect. There were no complications. Doppler sonography showed no residual stenosis after 4 months.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung Kinderheilkunde III und pädiatrische Kardiologie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Peuster
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Paul
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hausdorf
mesh_terms: D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005263:Femoral Artery; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D013771:Tetralogy of Fallot / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D018608:Ultrasonography, Doppler