title: Use of steerable delivery catheter to successfully deliver a Ceraflex septal occluder to close an atrial septal defect in a child with interrupted inferior vena cava with azygos continuation.
abstract: The closure of a secundum atrial septal defect through the jugular vein in a child with interrupted inferior vena cava with azygos continuation by steerable delivery catheter is described in the present report. The steerable catheter can be used to correct the perpendicular position of the device over the margins of the defect, and is particularly useful in cases of large defects.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Dr. Siyami Ersek Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: İlker K
authors.initials: İK
authors.lastname: Yücel
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Dr. Siyami Ersek Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey. drsevketballi@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Şevket
authors.initials: Ş
authors.lastname: Ballı
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Dr. Siyami Ersek Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Mehmet
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Küçük
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Dr. Siyami Ersek Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ahmet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Çelebi
mesh_terms: D001401:Azygos Vein / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D057785:Catheters; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D055989:Septal Occluder Device; D054079:Vascular Malformations / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging