Growth of an atrial septal defect: missing the window for transcatheter closure
T A Tortoriello1, C McMahon, J P Kovalchin
1Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, 6621 Fannin, MC-19345C, Houston, Texas, USA.
Pediatric Cardiology
|August 22, 2002
Abstract:
We describe a patient diagnosed with a small atrial septal defect (3-4 mm) that had grown to 24 mm in diameter over a six-year period. Timing of transcatheter intervention may be affected by growth of the atrial septal defect and this reports the first case of an atrial septal defect outgrowing the possibility of transcatheter closure.


