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Transcatheter patent ductus arteriosus closure in an infant using the Gianturco-Grifka Vascular Occlusion Device
R G Grifka1, J A Vincent, M R Nihill
1Lillie Frank Abercrombie Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
The American Journal of Cardiology
|September 15, 1996
Abstract:
A 2-month-old child with Down syndrome and a large patent ductus arteriosus underwent transcatheter closure using a new Food and Drug Administration-approved occlusion device. This device is described, along with its usefulness for other vascular defects.