Bart Straver

1 INTRODUCTION Balloon atrial septostomy (BAS) is an emergent and essential cardiac interventional procedure to stabilize neonates with congenital heart diseases (CHD) with physiology of restrictive atrial communication, such as patients with transposition of the great arteries (TGA).1-3 The enlargement of interatrial communication by BAS enhances atrial level mixing of oxygenated and deoxygenated blood from parallel pulmonary and systemic circulation and improves systemic hypoxia and...

Abstract : Background: Congenital abdominal wall defects might be associated with other anomalies, such as atresia in gastroschisis and cardiac anomalies in omphalocele patients. However, in the current literature, an overview of these additional anomalies and potential patient-specific risk factors is missing. Therefore, we aimed to assess the prevalence of associated anomalies and their patient-specific risk factors in patients with gastroschisis and omphalocele.

Abstract This report describes the case of a symptomatic patient with a right coronary artery fistula draining into the coronary sinus who underwent transcatheter closure, which was deployed in the drainage site to seal off the exit of the fistula.