OBJECTIVE Midline sternotomy is the preferred approach for device migration following transcatheter device closure of ostium secundum atrial septal defect. Results of patients operated for device migration were retrospectively reviewed after transcatheter closure of atrial septal defect. METHODS Among the 643 patients who underwent atrial septal defect with closure device, 15 (2.3%) patients ...

We report a technically difficult retrieval of embolized Atrial Septal Defect device from left atrium. Device was captured after multiple attempts using different types snares and brought to inferior vena cava without delivery sheath. As we were unable slenderize the into short sheath, it finally retrieved an unconventional innovative technique.We emphasize importance safe improvised methods du...

T ranscatheter cardiovascular interventions are nowadays more frequently and safely performed, thus leading to populate the heart with medical devices. Here, we describe an unusual complication following percutaneous closure of a patent foramen ovale (PFO) with an atrial septal occluder. A 52-year-old woman with history of transient ischemic attack was found to have a PFO associated with an atr...

anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (alcapa) is a rare congenital cardiac malformation. we report three cases of alcapa who survived to adulthood. the first case was a 51-year-old woman who complained of typical chest pain that was diagnosed with alcapa using cardiac catheterization and coronary computed tomographic angiography (cta). the second case was a 30-...

supravalvar mitral ring is a rare congenital heart defect of surgical importance. the condition is characterized by an abnormal ridge of the connective tissue on the atrial side of the mitral valve. it often substantially obstructs the mitral valve inflow. we herein introduce a case of a supravalvar mitral ring in a 17-year-old male, who was admitted to our hospital with cardiac syncope. he had...

Twelve adult patients with ostium primum atrial septal defects (incomplete endocardial cushion defect) who underwent surgical repair of their lesions were evaluated in the late postoperative period. All had closure of the low-lying atrial septal defect, with suturing of the mitral valve cleft in 11 patients. Although the patients benefited symptomatically from the surgery, all had residual card...

A 67-year-old man presented at another hospital with an anterior-wall myocardial infarction. He was transferred to our institution after he went into progressive cardiogenic shock and developed a post-myocardial infarction apical ventricular septal defect (VSD). During high-dose inotropic support, his blood pressure was 78/34 mmHg. Cardiac catheterization revealed a pulmonary artery pressure of...