These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: An Unusual Complication of the Ventricular Septal Defect Closure by Device: Late Right Aortic Cusp Perforation.
    Author: Topcuoglu MS, Atalay A, Gocen U, Guzel Y, Basturk Y, Demir F.
    Journal: Heart Lung Circ; 2015 Jul; 24(7):e118-21. PubMed ID: 25937396.
    Abstract:
    Aortic regurgitation (AR) is a rare complication of transcatheter closure of perimembranous ventricular septal defects (pmVSD). It results from iatrogenic pinching of the aortic valve by the VSD occluder or perforation by the catheter. It is usually detected during control echocardiography (ECHO). The current study reports the first case of a late AR, which resulted from late right coronary cusp perforation by the VSD occluder. The current manuscript discusses the possible causes of late cusp erosion due to occluder, advantages of early operation in such cases, and an alternative treatment method where the occluder removal is not possible at the operation.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]