By
- Ziyad M. Hijazi, MD, MPH, FSCAI, FACC, FAAP; Director of the Rush Center for Congenital and Structural Heart Disease, Pediatric Cardiology Section Chief, and Professor of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
- Ted Feldman, MD, FSCAI, FACC, FESC; Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, NorthShore University HealthSystem–Evanston Hospital, Evanston, Illinois
- Mustafa H. Abdullah Al-Qbandi, MD, DCH, FAAP, FRCPc, FAAC, FSCAI; Consultant Pediatrician, Pediatric Cardiologist, and Head of Pediatric Cardiology Unit,, Chest Diseases Hospital, Kuwait Cardiac Centre, Kuwait
- Horst Sievert, MD, FSCAI, FACC, FESC, FICA; Director of the CardioVascular Center Frankfurt, Sankt Katharinen Hospital, Frankfurt; Director of the Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiology and Vascular Medicine, Sankt Katharinen Hospital, Frankfurt; Professor of Medic, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
This volume covers everything you need to know about atrial communications; the pathology, anatomy, physiology, and natural history of treated and untreated patients; indications for intervention; surgical techniques currently used to close such defects; and transcatheter closure of these defects using approved and investigational devices. It also presents imaging techniques for guiding such procedures—including transthoracic echo, transesophageal echo, intracardiac echo, and 2-D and 3-D technology–and using MRI to evaluate patients. Every device currently available, both approved and nonapproved, is discussed in detail along with technical analyses of how to close defects. In addition to addressing the association between PFOs and strokes and migraines, the contributors examine the status of all trials addressing transcatheter closure of ASDs and PFOs.
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