title: Transcatheter closure of a large left ventricular pseudoaneurysm using an Amplatzer Vascular Plug 4 and stenting of the inferior caval vein in a child.
abstract: Left ventricular pseudoaneurysm is especially rare in childhood, and its main treatment option should be surgery. We describe the case of a 9.5-year-old boy who first underwent mitral vegetation excision and then an unsuccessful pseudoaneurysm operation. Owing to pseudoaneurysmal sac dimensions, inferior caval vein syndrome developed. We delivered the Amplatzer Vascular Plug 4 into the pseudoaneurysm and treated the inferior caval vein syndrome with a bare Cheatham-Platinum stent. The patient was asymptomatic at the last follow-up.
authors: Medical Faculty, Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Turkey. osmanbaspinar@hotmail.com
authors: Osman
authors: O
authors: Baspinar
authors: Ahmet
authors: A
authors: Mete
authors: Vedat
authors: V
authors: Davutoglu
mesh_terms: D017541:Aneurysm, False / Q000601:surgery*; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D002648:Child; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D055989:Septal Occluder Device; D015607:Stents; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000601:surgery*