Staged transcatheter closure of chronic postinfarction ventricular septal defects with the Amplatzer septal occluder.
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.
Demkow
Marcin
M
Department of General Cardiology, Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw, Poland.
Ruzyllo
Witold
W
Konka
Marek
M
Wilczynski
Janusz
J
Dzielinska
Zofia
Z
Kochman
Janusz
J