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Percutaneous closure of nonrestrictive aortopulmonary window in three infants
Author(s) -
Trehan Vijay,
Nigam Arima,
Tyagi Sanjay
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
catheterization and cardiovascular interventions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.988
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1522-726X
pISSN - 1522-1946
DOI - 10.1002/ccd.21366
Subject(s) - medicine , aortopulmonary window , percutaneous , ascending aorta , surgery , cardiology , closure (psychology) , pulmonary artery , aorta , economics , market economy
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.