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ASD Closure in Special Situations: Elderly, PA-IVS

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Cardiac Catheterization for Congenital Heart Disease

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Transcatheter closure is nowadays considered as the first-choice treatment of atrial septal defect (ASD). However, indication, technique, and results of this approach are still challenging and under debate in particular settings, as in elderly or in patients with pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum (PA-IVS) submitted to right ventricular decompression.

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  1. Pediatric Cardiology and G.U.C.H Unit, A.O.R.N. “Ospedali dei Colli”, II University of Naples, Via Camillo Sorgente, 31, Salerno, 84125, Italy

    Giuseppe Santoro MD, Luca Giugno, Cristina Capogrosso, Gianpiero Gaio & Maria Giovanna Russo

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  1. Pediatric and Adult Congenital Heart Center, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Milano, Italy

    Gianfranco Butera

  2. Pediatric and Adult Congenital Heart Center, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Milano, Milano, Italy

    Massimo Chessa

  3. Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease, German Heart Center, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    Andreas Eicken

  4. Pediatric Cardiology, Yorkshire Heart Centre, Leeds, United Kingdom

    John Thomson

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Santoro, G., Giugno, L., Capogrosso, C., Gaio, G., Russo, M.G. (2015). ASD Closure in Special Situations: Elderly, PA-IVS. In: Butera, G., Chessa, M., Eicken, A., Thomson, J. (eds) Cardiac Catheterization for Congenital Heart Disease. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5681-7_33

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