• Rev Esp Cardiol · May 2007

    [Transcatheter closure of postinfarction ventricular septal defects using Amplatzer devices].

    • Jacek Bialkowski, Malgorzata Szkutnik, Jacek Kusa, Zbigniew Kalarus, Mariusz Gasior, Roman Przybylski, Pawel Banaszak, and Marian Zembala.
    • Department of Congenital Heart Disease and Pediatric Cardiology, Medical University of Silesia, Silesian Center for Heart Disease, Zabrze, Poland. jabi_med@poczta.onet.pl
    • Rev Esp Cardiol. 2007 May 1; 60 (5): 548-51.

    AbstractWe carried out transcatheter procedures to close postinfarction ventricular septal defects (PIVSDs) in 19 patients: two had recanalization after surgical closure, and 17 had a primary PIVSD. In three of the latter patients, who had acute PIVSDs, the procedure was carried out in the first 3 weeks after infarction; in the 13 patients with subacute PIVSD, it was carried out 3.5-12 weeks after infarction. There was another procedure in one patient with chronic PIVSD. In total, 22 procedures were completed: 17 using an Amplatzer atrial septal occluder, two using an Amplatzer postinfarction ventricular septal defect occluder, and two using an Amplatzer muscular ventricular septal defect occluder. The procedure was successful in 14 patients: in 11 with subacute PIVSD, one with chronic PIVSD, and two with postsurgical PIVSD. Transcatheter closure of PIVSDs using an Amplatzer atrial septal occluder is probably the treatment of choice in patients undergoing surgery more than 3.5 weeks after myocardial infarction and in those with recanalization after previous surgical closure.

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