Atrial Septal Defect - Closure Devices

• FDA approval
• Initial experience in one center.
• Delayed transcatheter closure of secundum atrial septal defects for persistent cyanosis after surgical repair of severe pulmonary stenosis.
• Images.

Transesophageal echocardiographic image of the mesh reflections from an Amplatzer atrial septal occluder in the left atrium (LA).

Another transesophageal view of the same occluder.

Transthoracic apical two-chamber view.

Transthoracic apical four-chamber view.

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