title: Alarm!!! A UFO inside the heart.
abstract: An 8-year-old asymptomatic child was referred for surgical repair of coronary sinus atrial septal defect resulting in significant left-to-right shunt and right chamber volume overload. The septal fenestration was located near to its drainage site into the right atrium. Due to this seemingly favourable anatomy, transcatheter closure of the septal defect was performed using an Amplatzer Septal Occluder device. The echocardiographic postprocedural evaluation imaged the occluding device almost perpendicular to the atrial septum, seemingly floating above the mitral valve orifice, like an alien spaceship inside the heart.
authors.affiliation: Pediatric Cardiology, A.O.R.N. Ospedale dei Colli, II University of Naples, Naples, Italy. santoropino@tin.it
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Santoro
authors.forename: Biagio
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Castaldi
authors.forename: Carola
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Iacono
authors.forename: Luca
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Giugno
authors.forename: Gianpiero
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gaio
authors.forename: Maria G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Russo
mesh_terms: D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000295:instrumentation*; D002648:Child; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D054326:Coronary Sinus / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D018618:Echocardiography, Doppler, Color; D019560:Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D055989:Septal Occluder Device; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014683:Vena Cava, Superior / Q000002:abnormalities