Iyer Sunil, Bauer Thurston, Yeung Michael, Ramm Cassandra, Kiser Andy C, Caranasos Thomas G, Vavalle John P
Departments of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Cardiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Cardiovasc Diagn Ther. 2016 Apr;6(2):180-4. doi: 10.21037/cdt.2015.10.04.
Post-infarction ventricular septal defect (PI-VSD) is a devastating complication that carries a high mortality with or without surgical repair. Percutaneous closure is an attractive alternative in select patients though requires appropriate characterization of the PI-VSD as well as careful device and patient selection. We describe a multidisciplinary and multi-modality imaging approach to successful percutaneous closure of a PI-VSD.