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Echocardiographic Evaluation of Atrial Communications before Transcatheter Closure
Published on: February 8, 2022
Transcatheter residual ventricular septal defect closure after Rastelli operation
Alessandro Giardini1, Andrea Donti, Gaetano Gargiulo
1Pediatric Cardiology and Adult Congenital Unit, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy. alessandro5574@iol.it
Abstract:
We report on a 17-year-old patient with a residual ventricular septal defect and a significant pressure gradient across the pulmonary homograft after Rastelli-type operation. Device closure of the defect was associated with a considerable reduction of right ventricular hypertension and of the pressure gradient across the right ventricle-to-pulmonary artery conduit.

