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Echocardiographic assessment and percutaneous closure of multiple atrial septal defects

Atrial septal defect closure is now routinely performed using a percutaneous approach under echocardiographic guidance. Centrally located, secundum defects are ideal for device closure but there is considerable morphological variation in size and location of the defects. A small proportion of atrial...

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Autores principales: Mitchell, Andrew RJ, Roberts, Philip, Eichhöfer, Jonas, Timperley, Jonathan, Ormerod, Oliver JM
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC497050/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15268761
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-7120-2-9
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Sumario:Atrial septal defect closure is now routinely performed using a percutaneous approach under echocardiographic guidance. Centrally located, secundum defects are ideal for device closure but there is considerable morphological variation in size and location of the defects. A small proportion of atrial septal defects may have multiple fenestrations and these are often considered unsuitable for device closure. We report three cases of multiple atrial septal defects successfully closed with two Amplatzer septal occluders.