ATRIAL SEPTOSTOMY UNDER TRANSESOPHAGEAL GUIDANCE IN A PATIENT WITH PRIMARY PULMONARY-HYPERTENSION AND ABSENT RIGHT SUPERIOR VENA-CAVA

Authors
UNGER P STOUPEL E VACHIERY JL DEBACKER D
Citation
P. Unger et al., ATRIAL SEPTOSTOMY UNDER TRANSESOPHAGEAL GUIDANCE IN A PATIENT WITH PRIMARY PULMONARY-HYPERTENSION AND ABSENT RIGHT SUPERIOR VENA-CAVA, Intensive care medicine, 22(12), 1996, pp. 1410-1411
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Emergency Medicine & Critical Care
Journal title
Intensive care medicine → ACNP
ISSN journal
03424642
Volume
22
Issue
12
Year of publication
1996
Pages
1410 - 1411
Database
ISI
SICI code
0342-4642(1996)22:12<1410:ASUTGI>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
A patient presenting primary pulmonary hypertension and absent right s uperior vena cava underwent blade/balloon atrial septostomy as palliat ive therapy. Due to the anomaly of the venous drainage system, only tr ansesophageal echocardiography allowed the performance of the maneuvre .