Usefulness of three-dimensional echocardiographic reconstruction of the Amplatzer septal occluder in patients undergoing atrial septal closure.
Eighty-eight patients referred for transcatheter closure of atrial septal or patent foramen ovale defects underwent 3-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography to correlate preclosure anatomy with the morphology and positioning of the atrial septal occluder. Despite the effectiveness of the trancatheter closure and absence of complications, 2 linear indentations of the aortic root by the 2 discs of the device were clearly demonstrated in 16 cases, suggesting caution in the choice of very large occluders.
Pepi
Mauro
M
Centro Cardiologico Monzino, I.R.C.C.S., Istituto di Cardiologia Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy. mauro.pepi@ccfm.it <mauro.pepi@ccfm.it>
Tamborini
Gloria
G
Bartorelli
Antonio Luca
AL
Trabattoni
Daniela
D
Maltagliati
Anna
A
De Vita
Stefano
S
Andreini
Daniele
D
Pontone
Gianluca
G
D000328:Adult; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D019560:Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D005260:Female; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019736:Prostheses and Implants