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Catheter-based closure of a perimembranous ventricular septal defect using the Amplatzer occluder in a patient with right-sided heart and mirror-imaged arrangements of all organs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2005

Per G. Bjørnstad
Affiliation:
Paediatric Cardiology, Rikshospitalet – The National Hospital, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Bjarne Smevik
Affiliation:
Paediatric Radiology, Rikshospitalet – The National Hospital, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Abstract

We describe a 6-year-old boy with a right-sided heart part of the Kartagener syndrome, complicated by presence of a perimembranous ventricular septal defect. The defect was closed interventionally using the Amplatzer asymmetrical occluder for ventricular septal defects. The procedure was event-free. Non-operative closure of a ventricular septal defect in this patient demonstrated no other difficulty than mirror-imaged thinking, thus giving evidence that such treatment also can be offered to patients with positional anomalies.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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