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Annals of Saudi medicine · Mar 2014
Case ReportsTranscatheter closure of residual postinfarction ventricular septal defect after dehiscence of surgical patch repair.
- Abdelfatah Abdelazim Elasfar, Muhammad Adil Soofi, Tarek Seifaw Kashour, Mohammed Koudieh, and Mohammed Omar Galal.
- Dr. Abdelfatah Elasfar, Department of Adult Cardiology,, Prince Salman Heart Center,, King Fahad Medical City,, Riyadh 59046,, Saudi Arabia, T: +966501852566, F: +966112889999 Ext 11113, elasfar_egy@hotmail.com.
- Ann Saudi Med. 2014 Mar 1; 34 (2): 171-4.
AbstractVentricular septal defect (VSD) is a life-threatening complication of transmural myocardial infarction. Urgent surgical repair and concomitant revascularization are the standard of care. Percutaneous catheter-based closure techniques have been reserved for patients with a high-risk surgery or a failed surgical procedure with residual shunting. This case report demonstrates the successful transcatheter closure of residual VSD using the Amplatzer muscular VSD device (Amplatzer, Minnesota, USA) after surgical patch dehiscence for postinfarction VSD and 3-and-a-half years' post-intervention follow-up.
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