• Tex Heart Inst J · Feb 2014

    Case Reports

    Surgical removal of an atrial septal occluder device embolized to the main pulmonary artery.

    • Emre Boysan, Omer Faruk Cicek, Mustafa Cuneyt Cicek, Ziyaddin Hamurcu, and Sami Gurkahraman.
    • Departments of Cardiovascular Surgery (Drs. Boysan and Gurkahraman) and Cardiology (Dr. Hamurcu), Lokman Hekim Sincan Hospital, 06930 Ankara; Cardiovascular Surgery Department (Dr. O. Cicek), Turkiye Yuksek Ihtisas Hospital, 06100 Ankara; and Cardiovascular Surgery Clinic (Dr. M. Cicek), Dr. I. Sevki Atasagun Nevsehir State Hospital, 50200 Nevsehir; Turkey.
    • Tex Heart Inst J. 2014 Feb 1;41(1):91-3.

    AbstractPercutaneous closure of atrial septal defects in adults has emerged as an alternative to surgery. We report a sequela of such closure in a 16-year-old boy: embolization of the atrial septal defect occluder into the main pulmonary artery when the patient experienced an episode of intense coughing immediately after device deployment. We removed the device surgically and closed the atrial septal defect in a standard manner, with an autologous pericardial patch.

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