title: [Transcatheter closure of postinfarction ventricular septal defects using Amplatzer devices].
abstract: We carried out transcatheter procedures to close postinfarction ventricular septal defects (PIVSDs) in 19 patients: two had recanalization after surgical closure, and 17 had a primary PIVSD. In three of the latter patients, who had acute PIVSDs, the procedure was carried out in the first 3 weeks after infarction; in the 13 patients with subacute PIVSD, it was carried out 3.5-12 weeks after infarction. There was another procedure in one patient with chronic PIVSD. In total, 22 procedures were completed: 17 using an Amplatzer atrial septal occluder, two using an Amplatzer postinfarction ventricular septal defect occluder, and two using an Amplatzer muscular ventricular septal defect occluder. The procedure was successful in 14 patients: in 11 with subacute PIVSD, one with chronic PIVSD, and two with postsurgical PIVSD. Transcatheter closure of PIVSDs using an Amplatzer atrial septal occluder is probably the treatment of choice in patients undergoing surgery more than 3.5 weeks after myocardial infarction and in those with recanalization after previous surgical closure.
authors.affiliation: Department of Congenital Heart Disease and Pediatric Cardiology, Medical University of Silesia, Silesian Center for Heart Disease, Zabrze, Poland. jabi_med@poczta.onet.pl
authors.forename: Jacek
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bialkowski
authors.forename: Malgorzata
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Szkutnik
authors.forename: Jacek
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kusa
authors.forename: Zbigniew
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Kalarus
authors.forename: Mariusz
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gasior
authors.forename: Roman
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Przybylski
authors.forename: Pawel
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Banaszak
authors.forename: Marian
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zembala
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications*; D019736:Prostheses and Implants