Transcatheter residual ventricular septal defect closure after Rastelli operation

Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2005 Feb;64(2):209-12. doi: 10.1002/ccd.20250.

Abstract

We report on a 17-year-old patient with a residual ventricular septal defect and a significant pressure gradient across the pulmonary homograft after Rastelli-type operation. Device closure of the defect was associated with a considerable reduction of right ventricular hypertension and of the pressure gradient across the right ventricle-to-pulmonary artery conduit.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Cardiovascular Surgical Procedures / adverse effects*
  • Echocardiography, Transesophageal
  • Fluoroscopy
  • Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / diagnostic imaging
  • Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / etiology*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Transposition of Great Vessels / surgery*
  • Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / diagnostic imaging
  • Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / etiology