Catheter-based closure of a perimembranous ventricular septal defect using the Amplatzer occluder in a patient with right-sided heart and mirror-imaged arrangements of all organs

Cardiol Young. 2005 Oct;15(5):534-6. doi: 10.1017/S1047951105001460.

Abstract

We describe a 6-year-old boy with a right-sided heart part of the Kartagener syndrome, complicated by presence of a perimembranous ventricular septal defect. The defect was closed interventionally using the Amplatzer asymmetrical occluder for ventricular septal defects. The procedure was event-free. Non-operative closure of a ventricular septal defect in this patient demonstrated no other difficulty than mirror-imaged thinking, thus giving evidence that such treatment also can be offered to patients with positional anomalies.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Abnormalities, Multiple / diagnostic imaging
  • Abnormalities, Multiple / therapy*
  • Angiocardiography
  • Cardiac Catheterization*
  • Child
  • Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / diagnostic imaging
  • Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / therapy*
  • Humans
  • Kartagener Syndrome*
  • Male
  • Situs Inversus