Preprocedural Transthoracic Echocardiography Can Predict Amplatzer Septal Occluder Device Size for Transcatheter Atrial Septal Defect Closure

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 656-662 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serena P. Sah ◽  
Sergio Bartakian ◽  
Howaida El-Said ◽  
Delaram P. Molkara ◽  
Beth Printz ◽  
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2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 454-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teoman Kilic ◽  
Ertan Ural ◽  
Tayfun Sahin

Cobrahead deformity is a known (but uncommon) phenomenon associated with the left atrial disc of the Amplatzer or Occlutech Figulla septal occluder device during percutaneous transcatheter atrial septal defect closure. It has also been postulated that the right atrial disc of the Amplatzer septal occluder device might upon occasion exhibit the cobrahead malformation. To date, only one case report concerning the cobrahead deformity in the right atrial disc of an Amplatzer septal occluder has been published, if we discount a report published as a letter to the manufacturer. Here we present the first report (known to us) of a cobrahead deformity in the right atrial disc of an Occlutech Figulla Flex II atrial septal defect occluder device during transcatheter closure of a complex atrial septal defect.


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