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Transient phrenic nerve palsy induced by cardiac catheterisation in an infant

Part of: Interventional Cardiology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2021

Yasuhiro Ichikawa Open the ORCID record for Yasuhiro Ichikawa [Opens in a new window] ,
Sadamitsu Yanagi  and
Hideaki Ueda
Yasuhiro Ichikawa*
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiology, Kanagawa Children’s Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan
Sadamitsu Yanagi
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiology, Kanagawa Children’s Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan
Hideaki Ueda
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiology, Kanagawa Children’s Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan
*
Author for correspondence: Yasuhiro Ichikawa, Department of Cardiology, Kanagawa Children’s Medical Center, 2–138–4 Mutsukawa, Minami-ku, Yokohama 232-8555, Japan. Tel: +81 45 711 2351; Fax: +81 45 721 3324. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

We report on a 7-month-old male with transient phrenic nerve palsy induced by diagnostic cardiac catheterisation. The phrenic nerve palsy, which is a rare complication, was due to extravascular bleeding from a branch of the internal mammary artery.

Keywords

Pericardiophrenic arteryphrenic nerve palsyinternal mammary arterycardiac catheterisation
Type
Brief Report
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 32 , Issue 5 , May 2022 , pp. 827 - 829
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

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