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Cardiac catheterization has become increasingly useful for diagnosing and evaluating acquired cardiac lesions, though its application is technically more involved than in congenital malformations.
Cardiac catheterization is highlighted as an increasingly useful diagnostic tool for acquired cardiac lesions, despite being technically more complex than its use in congenital malformations.
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May inform diagnostic approaches in acquired lesions despite added complexity; leaves open need for contemporary validation studies.
CARDIAC catheterization was introduced in this country in 1941.1 Its potentialities as a revolutionary research tool were immediately apparent, and within a short time it was also applied as an aid in the diagnosis of congenital heart disease. In recent years, cardiac catheterization has been found increasingly useful as an aid in the diagnosis and evaluation of certain acquired cardiac lesions. Its application in these conditions is technically more involved than its diagnostic use in congenital malformations: in simple cases of the latter group, it may suffice to determine the oxygen content of samples withdrawn from a few regions of . . .
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Selzer et al. (1957) conducted a review in Acquired heart disease. Cardiac catheterization was evaluated. Cardiac catheterization has become increasingly useful for diagnosing and evaluating acquired cardiac lesions, though its application is technically more involved than in congenital malformations.
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