Percutaneous closure of nonrestrictive aortopulmonary window in three infants

✍ Scribed by Vijay Trehan; Arima Nigam; Sanjay Tyagi

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 249 KB
• Volume: 71
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1522-1946
• DOI: 10.1002/ccd.21366

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Aortopulmonary (AP) window, a communication between ascending aorta and pulmonary artery, is usually nonrestrictive and causes severe pulmonary vascular obstructive disease early in life. Only in 10% of the cases it is restrictive. There are sporadic case reports [1–8] of device closure of AP window which are mostly confined to these restrictive AP windows, that too in adults or relatively older children. Till date there is a single case report of device closure of nonrestirctive AP window in an infant [8]. We report our single experience of device closure of large, nonrestrictive AP windows in 3 infants. Percutaneous closure of AP window in each of the three patients was done by a different type of device i.e. duct occluder, muscular VSD occluder and perimembranous VSD occluder. © 2008 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.