Perforation of the right atrium and the ascending aorta following percutaneous transcatheter atrial septal defect closure.
Transcatheter closure of secundum atrial septal defect has become an alternative to surgery. We present a patient with hemodynamic collapse secondary to cardiac perforation occurring 36 h after the placement of an Amplatzer Septal Occluder and discuss complications of this kind of device.
Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Motol, V Uvalu 84, 15500, Prague 5, Czech Republic. j.vojacek@fnmotol.cz
Jan
J
Vojácek
Martin
M
Mates
Jana
J
Popelová
Petr
P
Pavel