title: Catheter-based closure of a perimembranous ventricular septal defect using the Amplatzer occluder in a patient with right-sided heart and mirror-imaged arrangements of all organs.
abstract: We describe a 6-year-old boy with a right-sided heart part of the Kartagener syndrome, complicated by presence of a perimembranous ventricular septal defect. The defect was closed interventionally using the Amplatzer asymmetrical occluder for ventricular septal defects. The procedure was event-free. Non-operative closure of a ventricular septal defect in this patient demonstrated no other difficulty than mirror-imaged thinking, thus giving evidence that such treatment also can be offered to patients with positional anomalies.
authors.affiliation: Paediatric Cardiology, Rikshospitalet - The National Hospital, University of Oslo, Norway. per.bjornstad@rikshospitalet.no
authors.forename: Per G
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Bjørnstad
authors.forename: Bjarne
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Smevik
mesh_terms: D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D000790:Angiocardiography; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D002648:Child; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007619:Kartagener Syndrome; D008297:Male; D012857:Situs Inversus