Percutaneous closure of nonrestrictive aortopulmonary window in three infants.
Aortopulmonary (AP) window, a communication between ascending aorta and pulmonary artery, is usually nonrestrictive and causes severe pulmonary vascular obstructive disease early in life. Only in 10% of the cases it is restrictive. There are sporadic case reports [1-8] of device closure of AP window which are mostly confined to these restrictive AP windows, that too in adults or relatively older children. Till date there is a single case report of device closure of nonrestirctive AP window in an infant [8]. We report our single experience of device closure of large, nonrestrictive AP windows in 3 infants. Percutaneous closure of AP window in each of the three patients was done by a different type of device i.e. duct occluder, muscular VSD occluder and perimembranous VSD occluder.
Trehan
Vijay
V
GB Pant Hospital, New Delhi, India.
Nigam
Arima
A
Tyagi
Sanjay
S
D001027:Aortography; D001028:Aortopulmonary Septal Defect / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D021721:Balloon Occlusion / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000379:methods; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000379:methods; D018618:Echocardiography, Doppler, Color; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D018570:Risk Assessment; D016896:Treatment Outcome