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Transcatheter closure of a large left ventricular pseudoaneurysm using an Amplatzer Vascular Plug 4 and stenting of the inferior caval vein in a child
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 July 2011
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Left ventricular pseudoaneurysm is especially rare in childhood, and its main treatment option should be surgery. We describe the case of a 9.5-year-old boy who first underwent mitral vegetation excision and then an unsuccessful pseudoaneurysm operation. Owing to pseudoaneurysmal sac dimensions, inferior caval vein syndrome developed. We delivered the Amplatzer Vascular Plug 4 into the pseudoaneurysm and treated the inferior caval vein syndrome with a bare Cheatham–Platinum stent. The patient was asymptomatic at the last follow-up.
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