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Usefulness of live/real time three/four‐dimensional transesophageal echocardiography in the percutaneous closure of an iatrogenic aorto‐right ventricular fistula
Author(s) -
Kemaloğlu Öz Tuğba,
Fiore Corrado,
Gürol Tayfun,
Şener Tufan,
Soylu Özer,
Dağdeviren Bahadır,
Ahmad Amier,
Nanda Navin C.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/echo.13803
Subject(s) - medicine , percutaneous , fistula , closure (psychology) , surgery , complication , radiology , cardiology , economics , market economy
The development of an aorto‐right ventricular fistula is a rare complication of cardiac surgery. The most common treatment is surgical closure of the fistula, but percutaneous closure of the fistula has become an attractive alternative option. We present a case of successful utilization of live/real time three/four‐dimensional transoesophageal echocardiography (3/4DTEE) to select the correct device size for percutaneous closure of an adult patient presenting with an aorto‐right ventricular ( AO ‐ RV ) fistula following aortic valve replacement. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case in which 3/4DTEE was used to select the device size and guide percutaneous closure of an iatrogenic AO ‐ RV fistula.