Percutaneous intervention is preferred over reoperation for the treatment of iatrogenic membranous ventricular septal defects (VSDs). During the standard percutaneous procedure, an arterio-venous loop is used for occluder deployment, entailing the risk of device impingement on the prosthetic aortic valve, which may cause serious complications or even death. In this report, we describe a novel n...

Traumatic ventricular septal defect (VSD) resulting from blunt chest injury is a very rare event. The mechanisms of traumatic VSD have been of little concern to dateuntil now, but two dominant theories have been described. In one, the rupture occurs due to acute compression of the heart; in the other, it is due to myocardial infarction of the septum. The clinical symptoms and timing of presenta...

BACKGROUND Post infarction ventricular septal defect (VSD) is an uncommon but life threatening complication of acute myocardial infarction. CASE PRESENTATION A 62-year-old woman was admitted with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). However, the day after angioplasty and stenting, Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) showed post infarction VSD. We decided to insert an extracorporeal membrane ox...

Iatrogenic aortocardiac fistulae have been described rarely following intracardiac repair. This 28 year-old-male presented to our facility with dyspnea going on 20 days after closure of ventricular septal defect (VSD) and resection of subaortic membrane. A communication was noticed between the aorta and the right ventricle (RV) upon transthoracic echocardiography. Cardiac catheterisation reveal...

The majority of patients with congenitally corrected transposition the great arteries, also known as arteries {S,L,L} have ventricular septal defects (VSD), most commonly perimembranous VSD (pmVSD). Transcatheter device closure pmVSD in these has not been widely described. We present a case L-TGA an Amplatzer Duct Occluder II (ADOII) using deployment starting subpulmonary left ventricle. demons...

Ventricular septal defects (VSDs) are estimated to account for 20 to 30% of all congenital heart defects (CHDs). Although a residual shunt is the most common complication of VSD surgery, a second operation that applies the surgical repair method is very difficult because it can increase the possibility of uncontrolled bleeding and the severity of tissue adhesion. Here, we present the first case...

As well known, ground fault circuit interrupters (GFCIs) are used to protect people from electric shock. Recently, a manufacturer installed variable speesd drives (VSDs) in all their products. After receiving feedback from their customers, they realized that their products would only work when powered through some GFCI outlets but not work when powered through others. To investigate this proble...

The article presented two proposals for construction of a flexible element with variable stiffness, in which construction is limited, or is it completely eliminated the mechanical elastic member such as spring. Their properties vary in the extent applicable member stiffness and speed of reaction to contact with an obstacle. By limiting, or eliminating the mechanical elastic member can be achiev...

Femoral venous access is the typical route for the antegrade approach to percutaneous closure of a perimemberanous ventricular septal defect (PM VSD). In this case report, we attempted percutaneous PM VSD closure in a five-year-old child with interrupted inferior vena cava (IVC) using a retrograde arterial approach. The Amplatzer Duct Occluder II was chosen due to its symmetrical design that ca...