ABSTRACT
Fundamentos: O fechamento perventricular das comunicações interventriculares (CIVs) musculares tornou-se uma altenativa terapêutica atraente em pequenos lactentes com grandes defeitos. Entretanto, a reprodutibilidade desse métodos em vários centros mundiais ainda é uma questão em aberto. Método: Relatamos uma experiência multicêntrica na América do Sul com tal abordagem. No período de julho de 2007 a maio de 2009, nove pacientes não consecutivos (idade e peso médios de 6 meses e 5,5kg, respectivamente) foram submetidos a procedimento no centro cirúgico, sob monitoração da ecocardiográfia transesofágica, utilizando-se dispositivos Amplatzer. Todos os pacientes, com exceção de um, apresentavam insuficiência cardíaca e graus variados de hipertensão pulmonar. Quatro pacientes...
Background: Perventricular closure of muscular ventricular septal defects (VSD) has become an attractive treatment modality for infants. However, its reproducibility worldwide remains to be seen. Methods: We report a multicenter experience in South America. From July, 2007 to May, 2009, nine non-consecutive patients (median age and weight were 6 months and 5.5 kg, respectively) underwent the procedure in the operating room under transesophageal echocardiographic guidance using Amplatzer devices. All patients but one were in congestive heart failure and had pulmonary arterial hypertension. Four patients had coarctation of the aorta and one was submitted to pulmonary artery banding at 6 months of life, which were all repaired at the same session. Eight patients had single defects (six mid-muscular, two apical) measuring 10.3 ± 3.7 mm and one patient had multiple apical defects that required two devices. Results: Ten devices were implanted successfully (median size: 12 mm), and two had to be sutured to the right ventricular wall with a surgical suture. One patient...