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Late free atrial wall rupture after percutaneous atrial septal defect closure and transvenous pacemaker implantation
Author(s) -
Huysmans Wim,
Budts Werner
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.21629
Subject(s) - medicine , septum secundum , intracardiac injection , percutaneous , cardiology , surgery , cardiac catheterization , heart septal defect
We report a remarkable case of right atrial rupture, 3 years after transcatheter closure of a secundum atrial septal defect, and 7 months after permanent transvenous two‐chamber pacemaker implantation. The etiology of the rupture remains unclear, but the presence of the two intracardiac devices is probably not coincidental. © 2008 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.