Percutaneous closure of a postoperative residual atrial septal defect

Abstract

Atrial septal defect (ASD) is the most common adult congenital heart disease. The aim of the treatment of this disease is the surgical or percutaneous closure of the defect. Although surgical method has been used for a long time, primarily percutaneous closure is preferred currently in many centres for appropriately selected patients. Percutaneous closure can be used for the primary treatment of newly diagnosed patients and also for cases who are found to have residual defect after surgical closure. In the literature, however, only a limited number of patients who underwent percutaneous ASD closure were reported. In this report, we present our case who was successfully treated through percutaneous closure of postoperative residual ASD.