• J Invasive Cardiol · Sep 2016

    Case Reports

    Atrial Septal Defect Closure for Right-to-Left Shunting Following a MitraClip Repair.

    • Subhi J Al'Aref, Geoffrey Bergman, and S Chiu Wong.
    • Greenberg Cardiology Division, Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 525 East 68th Street, Starr-4, New York, NY 10021 USA. scwong@med.cornell.edu.
    • J Invasive Cardiol. 2016 Sep 1; 28 (9): E80-1.

    AbstractPercutaneous repair of the mitral valve has been widely adopted for the treatment of primary, symptomatic severe mitral regurgitation in patients at prohibitive risk for surgical intervention. We present a case of an elderly female patient with moderate-to-severe mitral regurgitation who underwent MitraClip procedure, with postprocedural course remarkable for the development of right-to-left shunting and hypoxia, for which the patient underwent a percutaneous repair of the atrial septal defect with immediate recovery of oxygen saturation.

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