Sizing of Atrial Septal Defects to Predict Successful Closure with Transcatheter CardioSEAL™ Device
AUTOR(ES)
El-Said, Howaida G.
RESUMO
We conducted this retrospective study to compare methods for measuring atrial septal defects and to identify factors affecting echocardiographic measurement of such defects before transcatheter closure with the CardioSEAL™ Septal Occluder. We reviewed the records of patients considered for device placement at our institution from January 1997 to April 1999. Atrial septal defect size was measured by transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography; the stretched diameter was measured during catheterization by fluoroscopy and transesophageal echocardiography. The stretched-diameter fluoroscopic measurement was used for device size selection. Analysis of variance was used to calculate the effect of size, age, and size-by-age interaction.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
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