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Echocardiographic Evaluation of Atrial Communications before Transcatheter Closure
Published on: February 8, 2022
Atrial septal defect closure
Andres F Vasquez1, John M Lasala
1Division of Cardiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA.
Cardiology Clinics
|August 13, 2013
Abstract:
Congenital heart disease accounted for 0.3% of US hospital admissions in 2007, with 48% related to atrial septal defects (ASDs). More than one-fourth of adult congenital heart defects are ASDs, 75% of which are ostium secundum ASDs. The progressive impact of volume overload of the right cardiac chambers can be halted by ASD closure. This review focuses on percutaneous ASD closure.
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