We report the successful percutaneous closure of a large coronary artery fistula from the obtuse marginal artery to the right ventricle in an 8-month-old boy using the Amplatzer duct occluder. The device was positioned and deployed via the venous system, using a guidewire that had been advanced via
Transcatheter closure of large congenital coronary-cameral fistulae with Amplatzer devices
β Scribed by Elchanan Bruckheimer; Matthew Harris; Ran Kornowski; Tamir Dagan; Einat Birk
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 200 KB
- Volume
- 75
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1522-1946
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A 9-year-old patient with a large coronary arteriovenous fistula (circumflex-right atrium) underwent successful complete percutaneous closure, using the new Amplatzer Duct Occluder (ADO) inserted via a 6 Fr sheath.
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