Staged transcatheter closure of chronic postinfarction ventricular septal defects with the Amplatzer septal occluder

Marcin Demkow; Witold Ruzyllo; Marek Konka; Janusz Wilczynski; Zofia Dzielinska; Janusz Kochman

doi:10.1080/146288401316922698

Staged transcatheter closure of chronic postinfarction ventricular septal defects with the Amplatzer septal occluder

Int J Cardiovasc Intervent. 2001 Mar;4(1):43-48. doi: 10.1080/146288401316922698.

Authors

Marcin Demkow¹, Witold Ruzyllo, Marek Konka, Janusz Wilczynski, Zofia Dzielinska, Janusz Kochman

Affiliation

¹ Department of General Cardiology, Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw, Poland.

PMID: 12431340
DOI: 10.1080/146288401316922698

Abstract

Ventricular septal rupture is a serious complication of myocardial infarction with an extremely poor outcome. There are single reports of transcatheter closure of postmyocardial septal defects and clinical experience is limited. This paper reports on a successful staged transcatheter closure of two chronic postmyocardial defects using the Amplatzer septal occluder in a 52-year-old male.