Percutaneous Device Closure of the Atrial Septum

by Brecker; Stephen

• ISBN13: 9781841845968
• ISBN10: 1841845965
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-09-15
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

Percutaneous Device Closure of the Atrial Septum, edited by Stephen Brecker, brings together many of the world's leading interventional cardiologists to discuss all aspects concerning transcatheter device closure of defects of the atrial septum. Due to high technological advances, interest in this field has expanded rapidly over the past 10 years, and it is likely that there will be a sharp increase in the number of procedures being performed in the near future. With an ever-increasing rise in the number of adult patients presenting with atrial septum defects, it is imperative that interventional cardiologists know how to best deal with the problem, and this timely and much-needed text will prove to be a highly useful tool.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	ix
Foreword	xi
Preface	xiii
Acknowledgments	xiv
Section 1 Introduction	1	(74)
1 Anatomy of the atrial septum
Andrew C Cook	3	(18)
2 Clinical presentation of the atrial septal defect in adults
Paul Clift and Sara Thorne	21	(10)
3 The patent foramen ovale: clinical significance in cerebrovascular disease
Hugh S Markus	31	(12)
4 The patent foramen ovale: clinical significance in decompression illness and migraine
Peter Wilmshurst and Simon Nightingale	43	(14)
5 Echocardiography of atrial septal defects
George R Sutherland and Robert H Anderson	57	(12)
6 Intracardiac echocardiography of the interatrial septum
Michael J Mullen	69	(6)
Section 2 Techniques and Devices	75	(88)
7 Technique of percutaneous closure of the atrial septal defect and patent foramen ovale
Kevin P Walsh and Anita Dumitrescu	77	(20)
8 The Amplatzer septal occluder
Francisco Garay, Qi-Ling Coo, and Ziyad M Hijazi	97	(14)
9 Interventional closure of defects in the atrial septum using the HELEX septal occluder
Neil Wilson	111	(10)
10 Closure of interatrial communications using the CardioSEAL STARFlex devices
Igor F Palacios	121	(20)
11 The Premere PFO occluder
Horst Sievert and Franziska Büscheck	141	(10)
12 The Cardia-Intrasept PFO closure device
Rainer Schräder	151	(12)
Index	163