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Left atrial appendage (LAA) occlusion can be employed as an alternative treatment to oral anticoagulation in patients with atrial fibrillation to prevent embolic events. Atrial septal defect (ASD) may be related with right heart dysfunction and allow paradoxical embolism to occur. However, occlusion of both LAA through atrial access with ostium secundum ASD and ASD in the same setting is unusua...

BACKGROUND Device closure of Secundum atrial septal defect (ASD) is an accepted mode of treatment in selected patients with a suitable defect. The major initial concern over the long-term outcome has been erosions and more recently development of aortic regurgitation. Objective was to assess the intermediate and long term outcome of patients with device closure of ASD with special reference to ...

Abstract: Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) is one of the three most common types congenital heart disease in world. Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) a complication that can be found patients with secundum type ASD. There no research shows relationship between patient’s age and defect size increased pulmonary artery pressure ASD Indonesia, so further needs to done. Material Methods: This study re...

UNLABELLED It is common to suspect Eisenmenger syndrome when patients with atrial septal defect (ASD) show cyanosis and clubbing. However, ASD accompanying Ebstein's anomaly frequently shows cyanosis without severe pulmonary hypertension, especially in the early period after birth. So the medical decision to decline surgical treatment in those patients should not be determined merely by clinica...

Abernethy malformation is a rare congenital vascular in which anomalous communication seen between portal and systemic circulation. While treating the main goal to prevent shunting of blood into circulation preserving hepatic flow. This can be achieved surgically or non-surgical method. We report anaesthetic management closure type II 10 year old female child who had undergone ostium secundum A...

A 48-year-old male with a history of secundum type atrial septal defect (ASD) closure in childhood presented to our outpatient clinic complaining of palpitation for six months. Interestingly, transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography exams showed an undiagnosed partially unroofed coronary sinus associated with persistent left superior vena cava (LSVC) and Cor triatriatum.

conclusions we found that ei and qp/qs ratio are significantly and positively associated and qp/qs ratio can be easily estimated by measuring ei in secundum type asd patients. background one of the inclusion criteria for applying atrial septal defect (asd) closing procedure is an increased pulmonary-to-systemic blood flow ratio (qp/qs). eccentricity index (ei) is associated with ventricular dys...

UNLABELLED The case report of a 15-year-old patient with an unusual form of atrial septal defect is described. Echocardiography showed separation of the secundum and primum atrial septums due to abnormal posterior and leftward attachment of the primum septum into the roof of the left atrium. The morphology has been variably described as a 'double' atrial septum or 'spiral' atrial septal defect....

A 55-year-old woman with no prior cardiac history was referred for echocardiography after a precordial murmur was discovered on routine physical examination. Transthoracic and later transesophageal (Figure 1) echocardiography revealed a secundum-type atrial septal defect (ASD) measuring 1 cm in diameter and mild mitral regurgitation with normal ejection fraction and no wall motion abnormalities...