DOI 10.1002/ccd.21267

Published online 9 July 2007 in Wiley InterScience

© 2007 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Received 6 April 2007; Revision accepted 10 May 2007

 

Transcatheter Closure of High-Risk Muscular Ventricular Septal Defects With the CardioSEAL Occluder: Initial Report From the CardioSEAL VSD Registry

 

Authors

D Scott Lim, MD, Thomas J Forbes, MD, Abraham Rothman, MD, James E Lock, MD,

Michael J. Landzberg, MD

 

Source

D. Scott Lim, MD, ChildrenÕs Hospital Heart Center, University of Virginia, Hospital Expansion, 4th Floor, Room4038, 1215 Lee Street, Charlottesville, VA 22908-0386.

Email: sl9pc@virginia.edu.

 

Abstract

Objectives: The CardioSEAL VSD registry was created to track safety of the device to close high-risk Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD).

 

Background: This is the first report from the multi-centered CardioSEAL VSD registry reviewing demographics and initial results.

 

Methods: Centers recruited patients with VSD who were high-risk for surgery due to medical condition or anatomic features.

 

Results: 18 centers contributed data on 55 high-risk patients who had 61 VSD-occlusion procedures, with age of range of 5days to 65 years and using one to six devices. Implantation approach was transvenousin 48, perventricular in five, and by combined approach in two patients. Ninety-two percent of intended VSD device implants were judged successful. Twenty-two patients had single VSD closed by single device in 18 and by two devices in four patients. All patients <8 kg underwent perventricular device implantation. Thirty-three patients had multiple VSDs which were closed by a single device in 23, and multiple devices in 10.At discharge echocardiography showed total residual flow through all VSDs in which devices were used was classified as ÔÔSmallÕÕ or less in 74%, ÔÔMore than smallÕÕ in 11%, and ÔÔUncertainÕÕ in 15%. Eight major adverse events occurred in 5/61 cases (8%event rate), with 3/81 devices embolized (4% embolization rate), 5/81 devices surgically explanted (6% explant rate), and no deaths judged to be procedure-related.

 

Conclusion: This initial report from the multi-centered CardioSEAL VSD registry demonstrates the safety of the device to close high-risk VSDs.

 

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