Delayed embolization of Amplatzer septal occluder device: an unknown entity--a case report.
A case of delayed embolization of Amplatzer septal occluder, occurring at 2 weeks postimplantation in a 10-year-old girl with an oval-shaped secundum atrial septal defect is reported. The structurally intact device dislodged into the left atrium owing to reversal of transatrial pressure gradients and embolized to the left ventricular outflow tract from where it was retrieved surgically.
Verma
Puneet K
PK
Department of Cardiology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India. puneet_verma@hotmail.com
Thingnam
Shyam K S
SK
Sharma
Anurag
A
Taneja
Jasbir S
JS
Varma
Jagmohan S
JS
Grover
Anil
A
D021721:Balloon Occlusion / Q000009:adverse effects*; D002648:Child; D020878:Device Removal; D005260:Female; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery*; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000601:surgery; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D013997:Time Factors; D014694:Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery*