title: Early experience on peripheral vascular application of the vascular plugs.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Transcatheter closure of various congenital and acquired vascular malformations with Amplatzer Vascular plugs I and II has been established. Here we present our experience with device closure.
  
  
  METHODS
  Between October 2006 and August 2012, nine (three males and six females) patients aged between 11 months and 62 years (mean age 19 years) underwent percutaneous device closure with AVP I and II vascular plugs for congenital and acquired arteriovenous malformation and cardiac diverticulum are presented here.
  
  
  RESULTS
  One case of coronary cameral fistula, four cases of pulmonary arteriovenous fistula, one case of large major aortopulmonary collaterals (in tetralogy of Fallot closed before intracardiac repair), one case of congenital cardiac diverticulum, one case of fistula between external carotid artery and internal jugular vein and one case of iatrogenic carotid jugular fistula were successfully closed with AVP I and II plugs. Overall in nine cases, 16 AVP I and II plugs were deployed to occlude feeding vessels and one cardiac diverticulum. The technical success rate was 100%. No major complications were observed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Amplatzer vascular plugs can be used successfully for closure of various congenital and acquired vascular malformations with good result.
authors.affiliation: Additional Professor, Department of Cardiology, Advanced Cardiac Center, PGIMER, Chandigarh 160012, India. Electronic address: cardiopgimerchd@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Manoj Kumar
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Rohit
authors.forename: Alok Kumar
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Sinha
authors.forename: Naveen Krishna
authors.initials: NK
authors.lastname: Kamana
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000792:Angiography / Q000379:methods; D001164:Arteriovenous Fistula / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D001165:Arteriovenous Malformations / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D021721:Balloon Occlusion / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D002648:Child; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D064847:Multimodal Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000002:abnormalities*; D011667:Pulmonary Veins / Q000002:abnormalities*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012494:Sampling Studies; D055989:Septal Occluder Device / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013997:Time Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods; D016896:Treatment Outcome
keywords: Percutaneous device closure; Vascular malformations; Vascular plugs