Transcatheter Closing Atrial Septal Defect in a Child With Hereditary Spherocytosis

Zhixian Ji; Na Liu; Zhanhui Du; Gang Luo; Zhen Bing; Quansheng Xing; Silin Pan

doi:10.3389/fped.2019.00506

Transcatheter Closing Atrial Septal Defect in a Child With Hereditary Spherocytosis

Front Pediatr. 2019 Dec 17:7:506. doi: 10.3389/fped.2019.00506. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Zhixian Ji¹, Na Liu¹, Zhanhui Du¹, Gang Luo¹, Zhen Bing¹, Quansheng Xing¹, Silin Pan¹

Affiliation

¹ Heart Center, Qingdao Women and Children's Hospital, Qingdao University, Qingdao, China.

Abstract

A 3-year-old girl was admitted to our hospital for the correction of atrial septal defect (ASD). Open heart operation with cardiopulmonary bypass is dangerous because the patient also had hereditary spherocytosis, which put her at risk for hemolytic anemia. Therefore, percutaneous transcatheter closure for ASD was chosen and performed successfully, which avoided the erythrocyte damage caused by cardiopulmonary bypass. This is the first time such a case has been reported, and we present an alternative approach for ASD with hereditary spherocytosis.

Keywords: atrial septal defect; cardiopulmonary bypass; hemolysis; hereditary spherocytosis; percutaneous transcatheter closure.

Publication types

Case Reports