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Transcatheter closure of residual atrial septal defects after surgical closure
Massimo Chessa1, Gianfranco Butera, Alessandro Giamberti
1Dept. of Pediatric Cardiology, Via Morandi, 30 Istituto Policlinico San Donato, 20097 San Donato Milanese, Milan, Italy. massimo.chessa@lycos.com
Journal of Interventional Cardiology
|July 27, 2002
Abstract:
The repair of an ostium secundum atrial septal defects (ASDs) by an open heart operation is a safe procedure associated with low mortality and morbidity. Transcatheter closure of ASDs is a less invasive method of repairing ASDs and may also be the procedure of first choice in residual postsurgical ASD.