Transcatheter closure of residual postinfarction ventricular septal defect after dehiscence of surgical patch repair

Ann Saudi Med. 2014 Mar-Apr;34(2):171-4. doi: 10.5144/0256-4947.2014.171.

Abstract

Ventricular septal defect (VSD) is a life-threatening complication of transmural myocardial infarction. Urgent surgical repair and concomitant revascularization are the standard of care. Percutaneous catheter-based closure techniques have been reserved for patients with a high-risk surgery or a failed surgical procedure with residual shunting. This case report demonstrates the successful transcatheter closure of residual VSD using the Amplatzer muscular VSD device (Amplatzer, Minnesota, USA) after surgical patch dehiscence for postinfarction VSD and 3-and-a-half years' post-intervention follow-up.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Cardiac Catheterization / methods*
  • Female
  • Heart Rupture, Post-Infarction / etiology
  • Heart Rupture, Post-Infarction / surgery*
  • Heart Septum / injuries*
  • Humans
  • Inferior Wall Myocardial Infarction / complications*
  • Middle Aged
  • Myocardial Infarction / complications*
  • Septal Occluder Device
  • Surgical Wound Dehiscence / surgery*
  • Treatment Outcome