title: Perventricular closure of a perimembranous ventricular septal defect.
abstract: In recent years, perventricular ventricular septal defect device closure without cardiopulmonary bypass has gained increasing acceptance in China. Under transoesophageal echocardiography guidance, muscular, perimembranous and even doubly committed defects are closed. We performed the first application of this technique outside of China and explain step-by-step the hybrid procedure.
authors.affiliation: Clinic of Cardiovascular Surgery, German Heart Center Munich at the Technical University, Munich, Germany.
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schreiber
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Nöbauer
authors.forename: Fengwei
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Zhongyun
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhuang
mesh_terms: D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D002648:Child; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D005260:Female; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans
keywords: Congenital heart disease; Device; Ventricular septal defect