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Catheter management of occluded superior baffle after atrial switch procedures for transposition of great vessels.

Ebeid MR, Gaymes CH, McMullan MR, Shores JC, Smith JC, Joransen JA

Department of Pediatrics (Cardiology), The University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi 39216, USA. mebeid@ped.umsmed.edu

We present successful catheter intervention in 4 patients with total occlusion of the superior baffle after an atrial switch procedure. A transseptal needle (in addition to the transhepatic route in 1 patient with known occluded femoral veins) was used to open the occluded segments and place stents. Additionally, we report the regression of multiple systemic-to-pulmonary venous fistulas that developed as a result of the occluded baffle.

Published 10 March 2005 in Am J Cardiol, 95(6): 782-6.
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