we report the case of a male patient with community‑acquired quadruple‑valve endocarditis on presumed normal native valves.this patient had originally presented elsewhere with generalized edema and malaise and had been diagnosed with suspicious endocarditis and renal dysfunction, for which he unfortunately received incomplete treatment. transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiographic ex...

Anastomotic leaks occur in up to 5% of patients who undergo bariatric surgical procedures [1]. Reoperation is associated with a high morbidity, and a mortality of up to 10% [2]. Therefore, endoscopic management should be considered in the first instance. We present a case of a gastric anastomotic leak that was successfully closed with a cardiac septal occluder device (Amplatzer; St. Jude Medica...

[1] Son KH, Choi CH, Park KY, Park CH. Which animal model is proper for evaluation of a muscular ventricular septal defect closure device? Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2016;49:1295. [2] Lang N, Merkel E, Fuchs F, Schumann D, Klemm D, Kramer F et al. Bacterial nanocellulose as a new patch material for closure of ventricular septal defects in a pig model. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2015;47: 1013–21. [3] ...

The management of postinfarction ventricular septal defects represents a challenge to both cardiologists and surgeons due to the high morbidity and mortality rate. We report the case of a 79-year-old patient who developed an apical rupture of the ventricular septum, nine days after an anterior myocardial infarction. As the patient was in cardiogenic shock and developed acute pulmonary edema we ...

Ventricular septal defect (VSD) is a common congenital heart disease (CHD) in childhood, and its incidence about 20% of CHD. Surgical closure or repair safe with acceptable results. Transcatheter VSD offers excellent Coil system developed for transcatheter occlusion. Infective endocarditis (IE) post device implantation very rare; however, it possible. IE represents surgical challenge associated...

OBJECTIVE To apply three dimensional echocardiography to describe the geometric profile of the Amplatzer and Cardioseal occluders after deployment for closure of atrial septal defect. METHODS 20 patients (mean (SD) age, 14 (5) years) were enrolled for transcatheter closure of a secundum atrial septal defect with the Amplatzer occluder (10) or with the Cardioseal occluder (10). The two populat...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the retrospective study was to examine the changes in the left and right ventricular size as well as the systolic and diastolic function of the left ventricle after surgical and transcatheter treatment of atrial septal defects with Amplatzer atrial septal defect occluder (ASDO). METHODS Two groups of patients were examined using transthoracic cross-sectional echocardiogra...

background: the ductus arteriosus connects the main pulmonary trunk to the descending aorta. the incidence of isolated patent ductus arteriosus (pda) in full-term infants is about 1 in 2000. the amplatzer ductal occluder (ado) is recommended for pdas with sizes larger than 2 mm. in this procedure, we must confirm the ado position in pda by aortogram from the arterial line. the purpose of this s...