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Case Reports
. 2018 Aug;111(2):223-225.
doi: 10.5935/abc.20180122.

Transcatheter Closure of a Traumatic VSD with an ASD Occluder

[Article in English, Portuguese]
Rui Alexandre Pontes Dos Santos  1 , Henrique Guedes  1 , Leonor Marques  1 , Carolina Lourenço  1 , João Carlos Silva  2 , Paula Pinto  1
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Case Reports

Transcatheter Closure of a Traumatic VSD with an ASD Occluder

[Article in English, Portuguese]
Rui Alexandre Pontes Dos Santos et al. Arq Bras Cardiol. 2018 Aug.
No abstract available

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Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Echocardiographic images of the VSD. Panel A: VSD located in the mid anteroseptal segment. Panel B: VSD measuring 19 mm on the LV side and 7 mm on the RV side. Panel C: continuous wave Doppler estimating peak gradient at 84 mmHg.
Figure 2
Figure 2
10 mm ASD Occluder deployed in the VSD. Panel A: position of the device in the VSD. Panel B: LV angiogram showing mild residual shunt. Panel C and D: TEE displaying the residual shunt through the superior edge of the device.
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