Article Text
Case report
Transcatheter closure of ventricular septal defect using detachable steel coil
Abstract
Transcatheter closure has been attempted in selected cases of ventricular septal defects using Lock clamshell device, Rashkind umbrella device, and Sideris buttoned device. A small perimembranous ventricular septal defect with aneurysm of membranous septum in a 12 year old girl was closed successfully with a detachable steel coil of 8 mm diameter with four loops, after failure of deployment of a Rashkind double umbrella device.
- transcatheter closure
- ventricular septal defect
- septal aneurysm
- detachable coil
- congenital heart defects