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Staged transcatheter closure of chronic postinfarction ventricular septal defects with the Amplatzer septal occluder
Marcin Demkow1, Witold Ruzyllo, Marek Konka
1Department of General Cardiology, Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw, Poland.
International Journal of Cardiovascular Interventions
|November 15, 2002
Abstract:
Ventricular septal rupture is a serious complication of myocardial infarction with an extremely poor outcome. There are single reports of transcatheter closure of postmyocardial septal defects and clinical experience is limited. This paper reports on a successful staged transcatheter closure of two chronic postmyocardial defects using the Amplatzer septal occluder in a 52-year-old male.
