Spontaneous closure of a large secundum atrial septal defect

Large and untreated secundum atrial septal defects are closed in childhood in order to prevent significant rates of morbidity and mortality. Small defects often close spontaneously. We present a girl with a large atrial septal defect that underwent spontaneous closure at just over three years of age...

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Autores principales: Galea, N, Grech, V
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2002
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3232521/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22368617
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description Large and untreated secundum atrial septal defects are closed in childhood in order to prevent significant rates of morbidity and mortality. Small defects often close spontaneously. We present a girl with a large atrial septal defect that underwent spontaneous closure at just over three years of age. The defect was haemodynamically significant and larger than conventional expectations for spontaneous closure.
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spelling pubmed-32325212012-02-22 Spontaneous closure of a large secundum atrial septal defect Galea, N Grech, V Images Paediatr Cardiol Invited Article Large and untreated secundum atrial septal defects are closed in childhood in order to prevent significant rates of morbidity and mortality. Small defects often close spontaneously. We present a girl with a large atrial septal defect that underwent spontaneous closure at just over three years of age. The defect was haemodynamically significant and larger than conventional expectations for spontaneous closure. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2002 /pmc/articles/PMC3232521/ /pubmed/22368617 Text en Copyright: © Images in Paediatric Cardiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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