title: Transcatheter closure of a large left atrial aneurysm with a right pulmonary artery-to-left atrium connection using the Amplatzer ventricular septal occluder.
abstract: A right pulmonary artery-to-left atrium connection is a very rare cyanotic congenital heart defect. Although it is generally treated with surgery, we describe the case of a 5-year-old girl whose connection was successfully closed the Amplatzer muscular ventricular septal defect occluder. The patient was asymptomatic at last follow-up.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Gaziantep University, 27310, Gaziantep, Turkey. osmanbaspinar@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Osman
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Baspinar
authors.forename: Ahmet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Irdem
authors.forename: Yilmaz
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Toprak
mesh_terms: D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D002675:Child, Preschool; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003490:Cyanosis; D005260:Female; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000002:abnormalities*; D055989:Septal Occluder Device