Postapproval Study Outcomes of Muscular Ventricular Septal Defect Closure With the Amplatzer Muscular VSD Occluder
Athar M. Qureshi, Henri Justino, Carl Owada, Mohammed Numan, Makram Ebeid, Thomas J. Forbes, David Nykanen, Daisuke Kobayashi, Jillian Kolles, Dan Gutfinger, David Balzer · 2026
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Description
Athar Qureshi and co-authors report the five-year results of a required follow-up study on a device that plugs a hole in the heart's inner wall. Their 2026 paper covers a plug made by Abbott, cleared by the United States drug and device agency in 2007 on the condition that its maker keep tracking it. The holes sit in the muscle part of the wall between the lower chambers.
Ninety-two patients, most of them small children at high risk for open surgery, were enrolled in the United States and Canada from 2008 to 2020. The plug went in well in about 94 percent of cases. The hole was shut in about 78 percent at once, 94 percent at one year, and over 98 percent by year two through five.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Athar M. Qureshi, Henri Justino, Carl Owada, Mohammed Numan, Makram Ebeid, Thomas J. Forbes, David Nykanen, Daisuke Kobayashi, Jillian Kolles, Dan Gutfinger, David Balzer |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 31 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |