Hypoxemia after prior cardiac surgery due to interatrial shunting and its treatment with a novel transcatheter occlusion device.
We describe two unusual cases of hypoxemia after cardiac surgery due to intracardiac right-to-left shunting through a patent foramen ovale or atrial septal defect. The interatrial defects were successfully occluded by placement of a novel, transcather device, the Angelwings Atrial Septal Defect Occluder Device, with resolution of hypoxemia.
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Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA. wang0016@mc.duke.edu
Bashore
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Kisslo
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Das
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O'Laughlin
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Harrison
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D000368:Aged; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D002404:Catheterization; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D005260:Female; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000628:therapy*; D006346:Heart Septum / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications