Abstract
A 69-year-old woman presented to the emergency department for symptoms of acute right heart failure including progressive exertional dyspnea and limbs weakness. She underwent percutaneous transcatheter closure of a secundum ASD through femoral vein eight months before. Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) revealed severe tricuspid regurgitation and the migrated ASD device (Figure 1), we performed a safe procedure to retrieve the migrated device by deploying from a sheath. Postoperative vital signs were stable and the patient was discharged for home without symptoms of right heart failure. At the follow up one month later, TTE revealed no significant residual leaks at the ASD level, and no dyspnea or weakness was found.
KEYWORDS: Atrial septal defect;Device embolization;Surgical retrieval