Transseptal Access Through an Atrial Septal Defect Closure Device Resulting in Open Heart Surgery
Ott Saluveer1, Hamid Bastani1, Dinos Verouhis1
1Department of Cardiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
JACC. Case Reports
|June 9, 2022
Abstract:
A pulmonary vein isolation procedure in a patient with an atrial septal defect (ASD) closure device was complicated by entrapment of a mapping catheter in the device. The procedure was converted to open heart surgery, the device with the trapped catheter was explanted, the ASD was covered with a bovine patch, and a cryomaze procedure was performed. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.).
