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Echocardiographic Evaluation of Atrial Communications before Transcatheter Closure
Published on: February 8, 2022
Range of pulmonary artery pressures in patients undergoing percutaneous atrial septal defect device closure
Gianfranco Butera1, Eduardo Bossone, Massimo Chessa
1Istituto Policlinico San Donato, San Donato Milanese, Italy.
Abstract:
The secundum type of atrial septal defect is one of the most common conditions associated with pulmonary arterial hypertension. In a series of 274 consecutive patients who have undergone percutaneous atrial septal defect device closure at our institution we observed an increase in pulmonary artery pressure with age, but only three patients had overt pulmonary arterial hypertension.
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