title: Staged transcatheter closure of chronic postinfarction ventricular septal defects with the Amplatzer septal occluder.
abstract: Ventricular septal rupture is a serious complication of myocardial infarction with an extremely poor outcome. There are single reports of transcatheter closure of postmyocardial septal defects and clinical experience is limited. This paper reports on a successful staged transcatheter closure of two chronic postmyocardial defects using the Amplatzer septal occluder in a 52-year-old male.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Cardiology, Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Marcin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Demkow
authors.forename: Witold
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ruzyllo
authors.forename: Marek
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Konka
authors.forename: Janusz
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wilczynski
authors.forename: Zofia
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Dzielinska
authors.forename: Janusz
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kochman