Fate of moderate and large secundum type atrial septal defect associated with isolated coarctation in infants.
A moderate to large secundum atrial septal defect associated with isolated coarctation in infancy is likely to close spontaneously. Nine of 12 defects, including 4 defects > or =8 mm in at least 1 dimension, had either closed or were believed to be hemodynamically insignificant at follow-up, supporting the strategy of a lateral thoracotomy approach to coarctation and deferral of atrial surgery.
Yeager
S B
SB
Department of Pediatrics, University of Vermont School of Medicine, Burlington, USA.
Keane
J F
JF
D001017:Aortic Coarctation / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D013997:Time Factors