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Echocardiographic Evaluation of Atrial Communications before Transcatheter Closure
Published on: February 8, 2022
Transcatheter device closure of a congenital aortic-left atrial tunnel
Heather Y Sun1, Katie Jo Buccola, Rajesh Punn
1Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, Calif, USA.
Congenital Heart Disease
|April 23, 2013
Abstract:
Rare cases of aortic-left atrial tunnel exist in the literature. This case report highlights the echocardiographic characterization of this vascular anomaly and provides the first description of an aortic-left atrial tunnel closed by interventional cardiac catheterization in a pediatric patient.

