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Percutaneous transcatheter snare vegetectomy in a child
I Levent Saltık1, Sezen U Atik1, Ayşe G Eroglu1
1Department of Pediatric Cardiology,Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty,Istanbul,Turkey.
Cardiology in the Young
|January 29, 2016
Abstract:
Surgical vegetectomy may be indicated in patients with unresolving sepsis, heart failure, recurrent embolism, or the presence of large vegetations >10 mm in size. Percutaneous vegetectomy using a snare may be a reasonable option instead of open-heart surgery in selected patients. We describe the case of a patient with operated tetralogy of Fallot and infective endocarditis who underwent vegetectomy via a percutaneous approach.