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Percutaneous closure of severe calcified patent ductus arteriosus with two amplatzer devices
Hiroya Takafuji1, Makio Muraishi, Kotaro Obunai
1Department of Cardiology, Tokyo Bay Urayasu Ichikawa Medical Center, Urayasu-City, Chiba, Japan. hiroyat@jadecom.jp.
The Journal of Invasive Cardiology
|September 28, 2023
Abstract:
An 89-year-old woman was referred for closure of a patent ductus arteriosus (PDA). Contrast-computed tomography showed Krichenko type C PDA with severe calcification (Figure 1). Initial angiography revealed severe calcification of the PDA (Figure 2, Video 1), and the mid-ductus diameter was 6 mm and the ductus length was 14 mm..

