[Percutaneous transcatheter closure of an aorta to left atrium fistula with an Amplatzer septal occluder in a patient with a mitral bioprosthesis]

G Ital Cardiol (Rome). 2016 May;17(5):391-2. doi: 10.1714/2252.24272.
[Article in Italian]

Abstract

We describe the case of a patient with a mitral bioprosthetic valve undergoing percutaneous closure with fluoroscopy and echocardiographic guidance of a rare left sinus of Valsalva‒left atrial fistula. The original aspect of this case is that the fistula was located at the level of the left sinus of Valsalva next to the mitral valve bioprosthesis with subsequent risk of prosthesis damage and/or occlusion of the left coronary artery at its origin during the procedure.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Aorta / diagnostic imaging
  • Aortography / methods
  • Bioprosthesis*
  • Cardiac Catheterization* / methods
  • Echocardiography, Transesophageal / methods
  • Heart Atria* / diagnostic imaging
  • Heart Valve Prosthesis*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Mitral Valve* / surgery
  • Septal Occluder Device*
  • Sinus of Valsalva* / diagnostic imaging
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Ultrasonography, Interventional / methods
  • Vascular Fistula* / diagnostic imaging
  • Vascular Fistula* / etiology
  • Vascular Fistula* / therapy