Tag: congenital heart defects

Transcatheter treatment has become the method of choice for treating many heart defects. Recently, Cardio-O-Fix occluder (COF) — a new, self-expandable nitinol wire- -mesh device very similar to the Amplatzer device — has been introduced into clinical practice. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first publication related to its application...

Major vessel stenoses are currently successfully treated with stent implantation. Recently, new cobalt-chromium stents (Andrastents XL and XXL, Andramed, Germany) have been introduced into clinical practice. This alloy combines high biocompatibility with radial strength and flexibility...

We present a case of Gerbode type defect (left ventricular to right atrial communication) discovered in a 52 year-old man with atrial and ventricular septal defects. The patient was diagnosed using two-dimensional colour Doppler and transoesophageal echocardiography.

Kabuki syndrome (KS) was fi rstly reported in 1981 by Niikawa et al. [1] and Kuroki et al. [2]. It is an entity of multiple congenital malformations with mental retardation with undetermined etiology, characterized by typical facial features (elongated palpebral fi ssures with eversion of the lateral third of the lower eyelid; arched and broad eyebrows; short columella with depressed nasal tip; large, prominent, or cupped ears), minor skeletal anomalies, persistence of fetal fi ngertip pads, mild to moderate intellectual disability, and postnatal growth defi ciency [3, 4]...