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Nitinol wire mesh fracture and traumatic left atrial thrombus in a patient with atrial septal defect amplatzer
Gholam Reza Rezaian1, Ahmad Ali Amirghofran, Sasan Afifi
1Department of Medicine Cardiology, Alzahra Cardiovascular Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. grezaian@gmail.com
Journal of Cardiac Surgery
|August 28, 2010
Abstract:
Although wire device frame fracture associated with thrombus formation has been reported in some types of atrial septal defect occluders, it has not been detected in patients with Amplatzer devices. Here, we describe an unusual case of Nitinol wire mesh fracture associated with left atrial endocardial damage and thrombus formation in an adult with Amplatzer septal occluder.
