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Late free atrial wall rupture after percutaneous atrial septal defect closure and transvenous pacemaker implantation |
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| Authors: | Wim Huysmans MD Werner Budts MD PhD |
| Affiliation: | Department of Cardiology, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium |
| Abstract: | We report a remarkable case of right atrial rupture, 3 years after transcatheter closure of a secundum atrial septal defect, and 7 months after permanent transvenous two‐chamber pacemaker implantation. The etiology of the rupture remains unclear, but the presence of the two intracardiac devices is probably not coincidental. © 2008 Wiley‐Liss, Inc. |
| Keywords: | congenital heart disease in adults complications adult cath/intervention patent foramen ovale/atrial septal defect |