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Echocardiographic Evaluation of Atrial Communications before Transcatheter Closure
Published on: February 8, 2022
Perventricular closure of a post-traumatic muscular ventricular septal defect guided by transesophageal
Weiguo Bao1, Yongmei Wang, Changxian Xu
1Department of Cardiac Surgery, Second Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China.
Abstract:
Minimally invasive perventricular closure is emerging as an alternative to conventional open surgery in treating traumatic ventricular septal defects (VSDs). We report a case of successful perventricular closure of a post-traumatic muscular VSD in a patient who sustained blunt chest trauma in a motor vehicle accident. A larger Amplatzer muscular VSD occluder (16 mm in diameter) was used to close the VSD near the apex.
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