title: Spontaneous closure of congenital ventricular septal defect in an adult.
abstract: Spontaneous closure of congenital ventricular septal defect occurs commonly in infants and young adults. Occurrence in adults--patients older than 21 years--however, is rare. For this reason, we report on spontaneous closure of a congenital ventricular septal defect in a patient older than 26 years. This case was documented by catheterization before and after spontaneous closure. They proposed mechanisms of spontaneous closure are briefly reviewed.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D005260:Female; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous