Cardiac Catheterization for Congenital Heart Disease

PART I) GENERAL 1) Informed Consent.- 2) Anaesthesiological Management of the Paediatric Patient in the Catheterisation Laboratory.- 3) Antibiotics and Anticoagulation.- 4) 4) Angiography: Basics and Contrast Media.- 5) Angiography: Standard Projections / Radiation Exposure.- 6) Catheters and Wires.- 7) Balloons.- 8) Stents.- 9) Transcatheter Valve Devices in Congenital Heart Disease.- 10) "Adult" Tools Relevant For Congenital Heart Disease.- 11) Hemodynamic Assessment: Pressures, Flow, Resistances and Vasoreactive Testing.- 12) Congenital Heart Disease: An Integrated Care Approach.- PART II) VASCULAR ACCESS 13) The Usual Vascular Access.- 14) Unusual Access.- 15) Hemostasis.- 16) Access Complications and Management.- 17) Transseptal Access.- 18) Hybrid Accesses.- PART III) FETAL PROCEDURES 19) Fetal Interventions.- PART IV) STEP-BY-STEP PROCEDURES: VALVE DILATATION 20) Aortic Valvular Stenosis.- 21) Pulmonary Valvular Stenosis.- 22) Pulmonary Atresia and Intact Venreicular Septum.- 23) Percutaneous Transcatheter Balloon Mitral Commissurotomy.- PART V) STEP-BY-STEP PROCEDURES: VESSEL TREATMENT 24) Stent Implantation in Patients with Pulmonary Arterial Stenosis.- 25) Aortic Coarctation.- 26) The Role of Transcatheter Interventions in Middle Aortic Syndrome.- 27) Reopening of Peripheral and Central Arteries and Veins.- 28) PDA Stenting in Duct-dependent Pulmonary Circulation.- 29) PDA Stenting in Duct-dependent Systemic Circulation.- PART VI) STEP-BY-STEP PROCEDURES: CLOSING OR CREATING A DEFECT 30) Step-by-step Closure of Atrial Septal Defects (ASDs).- 31) Step-by-step Device Closure of Persistent Foramen Ovale (PFO).- 32) Fontan Fenestrations Closure.- 33) Ventricular Septal Defect.- 34) Patent Ductus Arteriosus Closure.- 35) Percutaneous Closure of PDA in Premature Babies.- 36) Closure of Coronary Arterial Fistulas.- 37) Vessel Embolization: Transcatheter Embolization of Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformations and Aortopulmonary Collateral Arteries.- 38) Closure of Residual Post-surgical Defects.- 39) ASD Closure in Special Situations: Elderly, PA-IVS.- 40) Creating an Interatrial Communication.- 41) Transcatheter Correction of the Superior Sinus Venosus ASD.- PART VII) STEP-BY-STEP PROCEDURES: VALVE IMPLANTATION 42) Melody Valve Implantation in Pulmonary Position.- 43) SAPIEN XT Valve Implantation in the Pulmonary Position.- 44) Percutaneous Tricuspid Valve Implantation.- 45) Novel Self-Expanding Pulmonary Valves and Devices.- 46) Approaches to Large or Complex Right Ventricular Outflow Tract.- PART VIII) STEP-BY-STEP PROCEDURES: PRINCIPLES OF HYBRID APPROACH 47) Hybrid Approach in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS).- 48) Hybrid Approach: Defect Closure.- 49) Hybrid Approach: Stent Implantation.- PART IX) STEP-BY-STEP PROCEDURES: MISCELLANEA 50) Retrieval Techniques.- 51) Pericardiocentesis.- 52) Endomyocardial Biopsies.- 53) Evaluations Before Partial and Total Cavopulmonary Connections.- 54) Hemodynamics in Pericardial and Myocardial Diseases.- 55) Imaging and Treating Coronary Arteries in Children.- 56) Transcatheter Treatments in PA-VSD-MAPCAs.- 57) Stenting of the Right Ventricular Outflow Tract as Initial Palliation for Fallot-Type Lesions.- PART X) IMAGING TECHNIQUES 58) The Use of 3D Rotational Angiography in Congenital Heart Disease.- 59) Intracardiac Echocardiography.- 60) Three Dimensional Transoesophageal Echocardiography in Diagnosis and Transcatheter Treatment of Congenital Cardiac Defects.- 61) 3D Mapping - Live Integration and Overlay of 3D Data from MRI and CT for Improved Guidance of Interventional Cardiac Therapy.- 62) 3D Printing and Engineering Tools Relevant to Plan a Transcatheter Procedure.- 63) Development of a Quality Improvement Culture in the Congenital Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory.- 64) Quality Improvement Tools and Risk Mitigation in the Congenital Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory.- 65) Hemodynamic Formulae, Calculations and Charts.