TYK218

Cardiac catheterization with “drug study” is typically used to assess:

a) The Fontan circuit following Fontan palliation

b) Adequacy of atrial mixing after balloon atrial septostomy

c) Reproducibility of coronary ischemia

d) Response of pulmonary vascular resistance to pulmonary vasodilators

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Answer

Answer d. Cardiac catheterization and drug study (vasodilator testing) is performed to evaluate the pulmonary vascular resistance and its reversibility with pulmonary vasodilator therapy prior to initiation of drug therapy for pulmonary hypertension.

Notes

This question originally printed in the Pediatric Anesthesiology Review Topics kindle book series, and appears courtesy of Naerthwyn Press, LLC.

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