In nine with aneurysm and atrial septal defect (type B), five defects were closed and four required surgery. Device closure was achieved in all 10 patients with aneurysms and two perforations (type C) ...

Nevertheless, the data retrieved from recent literature suggest that surgery and percutaneous ... Postprocedure atrial fibrillation and persistent atrial septal aneurysm had been found as ...

Atrial septal aneurysms have two mechanisms for cardioembolic events. One is the aneurysm itself can act as a nidus for thrombus formation in the left atrium. The aneurysm creates an area of low ...

This creates extra work for one side of the heart. If an atrial septal defect is large, heart failure may occur, although this is not common in children. Many children have no symptoms. So this defect ...

Despite the growing recognition of the patent foramen ovale (PFO), particularly when associated with an atrial septal aneurysm, as risk factor for several disease manifestations (above all paradoxical ...

Postnatal echocardiography on the first day of life demonstrated an enlarged right atrial appendage aneurysm (1.2×0.9 cm), a small secundum atrial septal defect, and otherwise normal intracardiac ...