Atrial septostomy under transesophageal guidance in a patient with primary pulmonary hypertension and absent right superior vena cava

Intensive Care Med. 1996 Dec;22(12):1410-1. doi: 10.1007/BF01709560.

Abstract

A patient presenting primary pulmonary hypertension and absent right superior vena cava underwent blade/balloon atrial septostomy as palliative therapy. Due to the anomaly of the venous drainage system, only transesophageal echocardiography allowed the performance of the maneuvre.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Blood Gas Analysis
  • Catheterization / methods*
  • Echocardiography, Transesophageal*
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Heart Atria* / diagnostic imaging
  • Humans
  • Hypertension, Pulmonary / complications
  • Hypertension, Pulmonary / diagnostic imaging
  • Hypertension, Pulmonary / therapy*
  • Male
  • Monitoring, Intraoperative
  • Palliative Care*
  • Ultrasonography, Interventional*
  • Vena Cava, Superior / abnormalities*