The two Amplatzer devices that were originally designed for transcatheter closure of cardiac defects were successfully used for closure of the bronchopleural fistulae.
We describe the successful treatment of a multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patient with BPF using an occlusion device originally designed for transcatheter closure of an atrial septal defect.
Background Different types of coils have been designed for transcatheter closure of persistent arterial ducts.
We successfully closed the fistula with an Amplatzer Septal Occluder (AGA Medical Corp, Plymouth, MN), a nitinol device designed for percutaneous closure of congenital heart defects.
The purpose of this study was therefore to assess the effect of bioactive coatings on biocompatibility of Nitinol coils designed for the closure of intra-atrial communications.
In this article, a new combined skin-subcutaneous tissue suturing technique called as "8-shaped crisscross tensile suture (8CTS)" designed for the closure of large skin defects is presented.
Surgical suture is a strand of biocompatible material designed for wound closure, and therefore can be a medical device potentially suitable for local drug delivery to treat pain at the surgical site.
In conclusion, r-hirudin and fibronectin coating, by causing no acute cytotoxicity, decreasing thrombogenicity and increasing endothelialisation improve in vitro biocompatibility of Nitinol devices designed for the closure of intra-atrial communications.
We describe the experience of the endovascular closure of interventricular communication performed for three years in different centers of interventional cardiology and highlight its result in a group of selected patients in whom such procedure was made by the use of a last generation device designed for the closure of ductus arteriosus.
Because the SCCmec and orfX near sequences were on more than one contig, sequence-specific primers were designed for gap closure and PCR products were sequenced on an ABI 3130 XL (Applied Biosystems Inc, Foster City, CA, USA).
