Failed Amplatzer Septal Occluder device implantation due to an embryonic septal remnant

Open Access

19 September 2006

journal article
case report
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in European Heart Journal

Vol. 28 (3) , 309
https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehl200

Abstract

Embryonic remnants of incomplete septation may complicate occlusion device implantation in secundum atrial septal defects (sASD) even if stiff devices such as the Amplatzer Occluder are used.

Keywords

SEPTAL REMNANT
EMBRYONIC SEPTAL
IMPLANTATION
AMPLATZER
OCCLUDER
OCCLUSION DEVICE
EMBRYONIC REMNANTS
STIFF DEVICES

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