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Table 3 Success and complications of cardiac catheterization

From: Cardiac catheterization addressing early post-operative complications in congenital heart surgery—a single-center experience

Interventional procedures and their success rate (n = 20)

Type of procedure

n (%)

Success, n (%)

  Angioplasty/stenting

10 (50%)

9 (90%)

   Pulmonary arteries stenting

6

 

   RVOT stenting

2

 

   RCA stenting

1

 

   Pulmonary venous baffle stenting

1

 

  Angioplasty/ballooning

2 (10%)

1 (50%)

   Pulmonary venous baffle

1

 

   Modified BT shunt

1

 

  Closure

8 (40%)

8 (100%)

   MAPCA

2

 

   Fontan fenestration

2

 

   Pulmonary AVMS

1

 

   Modified BT shunt

1

 

   AO-RVOT fistula

1

 

   Antegrade pulmonary flow in Fontan

1

 

Complications of cardiac catheterization in all procedures (n = 30)

 Cardiac arrest during procedure, n (%)

 

1 (3.33)

 Embolization of stent/device, n (%)

 

1 (3.33)

 Arterial thrombosis, n (%)

 

1 (3.33)

  1. Abbreviations: RVOT right ventricular outflow tract, RCA right coronary artery, BT shunt Blalock–Taussig shunt, MAPCA major aorto-pulmonary collateral arteries, AVMS arterio-venous malformations, AO aorta