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Heart 89:918-922 doi:10.1136/heart.89.8.918
  • Congenital heart disease

Transcatheter closure of perimembranous ventricular septal defects with the Amplatzer asymmetric ventricular septal defect occluder: preliminary experience in children

Table 1

Clinical and haemodynamic data in 10 patients with membranous ventricular septal defect (VSD)

Outcome
Patient number Age (years) Weight (kg) Qp/Qs VSD diameter (mm) Device diameter (mm) Complication Immediate angiogram 24 h TTE 1 month TTE 3 month TTE
*Balloon “stretched” diameter.
CC, complete closure; Qp/Qs, pulmonary to systemic flow ratio; TCLBBB, transient complete left bundle branch block; TS, trivial residual shunt; TTE, transthoracic echocardiography.
    1 4 18 1.7 3 4 TCLBBB CC CC CC CC
    2 6 24 1.6 2.5 4 None CC CC CC CC
    3 1.5 11 2.2 4.5 6 None CC CC CC CC
    4 2 16 2.4 6 8 TCLBBB CC CC CC CC
    5 5 22 2.0 4 6 None CC CC CC CC
    6 12 41 1.5 2 4 None CC CC CC CC
CC CC CC CC
8 4 20 2.3 7 8 None CC CC CC CC
    9 3 17 2.3 8* 8 TCLBBB TS TS TS CC
    10 12 49 1.9 6 6 None CC CC CC CC
Mean (SD) 6.0 (4.0) 25.1 (12.1) 1.93 (0.29) 4.5 (1.94) 6.0 (1.63)

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