Use of steerable delivery catheter to successfully deliver a Ceraflex septal occluder to close an atrial septal defect in a child with interrupted inferior vena cava with azygos continuation

Turk Kardiyol Dern Ars. 2016 Apr;44(3):244-7. doi: 10.5543/tkda.2015.75222.

Abstract

The closure of a secundum atrial septal defect through the jugular vein in a child with interrupted inferior vena cava with azygos continuation by steerable delivery catheter is described in the present report. The steerable catheter can be used to correct the perpendicular position of the device over the margins of the defect, and is particularly useful in cases of large defects.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Azygos Vein* / abnormalities
  • Azygos Vein* / diagnostic imaging
  • Cardiac Catheterization / instrumentation*
  • Cardiac Catheterization / methods
  • Catheters
  • Child
  • Female
  • Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / surgery*
  • Humans
  • Septal Occluder Device*
  • Vascular Malformations / diagnostic imaging
  • Vena Cava, Inferior* / abnormalities
  • Vena Cava, Inferior* / diagnostic imaging