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Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2013; 61(04): 330-332
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1304551
Case Report
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Minimal Invasive Retrieval of Dislodged Amplatzer Occluder with Subsequent Impediments

Philipp Born
1   Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
,
Friedrich Eckstein
1   Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
,
Peter Buser
2   Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
,
Oliver Reuthebuch
1   Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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25 October 2011

13 December 2011

Publication Date:
25 April 2012 (online)

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Abstract

A 47-year-old female underwent interventional patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure with an Amplatzer septal occluder (AGA Medical Corporation, USA). After 48 hours of implantation, she experienced intermittent pulse synchronous retrosternal pain. Subsequently, device-associated compression of the aortic root was diagnosed. Occluder retrieval and surgical PFO-closure was accomplished successfully via minimal invasive, video-assisted anterolateral thoracotomy.

Keywords

patent foramen ovale - septal occluder - aorta - anterolateral thoracotomy
 

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