{"id":6931,"date":"2015-04-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.christianacare.org\/2015\/04\/percutaneous-closure-of-acquired-gerbode-defect-management-of-a-rare-complication-of-cardiac-surgery\/"},"modified":"2015-04-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T04:00:00","slug":"percutaneous-closure-of-acquired-gerbode-defect-management-of-a-rare-complication-of-cardiac-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.christianacare.org\/publications\/2015\/04\/01\/percutaneous-closure-of-acquired-gerbode-defect-management-of-a-rare-complication-of-cardiac-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Percutaneous closure of acquired Gerbode defect: management of a rare complication of cardiac surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fanari Z, Barekatain A, Abraham N, Hopkins JT<\/p>\n<p>Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg 2015 Apr;<\/p>\n<p>PMID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/25842077\" target=\"_blank\">25842077<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Abstract<\/h2>\n<p>Although rare, acquired Gerbode defect (abnormal communication between left ventricle and right atrium) may result as a complication of myocardial infarction, endocarditis as well as aortic or mitral valve replacement resulting in resistant heart failure secondary to significant left to right shunting. We are reporting the case of a 50-year old lady with repeated aortic valve replacement presenting with resistant heart failure secondary to an acquired Gerbode defect. Management of this defect in these high-risk patients may be challenging and percutaneous closure, if feasible, may represent the best management option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fanari Z, Barekatain A, Abraham N, Hopkins JT Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg 2015 Apr; PMID: 25842077 Abstract Although rare, acquired Gerbode defect (abnormal communication between left ventricle and right atrium) may result as a complication of myocardial infarction, endocarditis as well as aortic or mitral valve replacement resulting in resistant heart failure secondary to significant<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/research.christianacare.org\/publications\/2015\/04\/01\/percutaneous-closure-of-acquired-gerbode-defect-management-of-a-rare-complication-of-cardiac-surgery\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Percutaneous closure of acquired Gerbode defect: management of a rare complication of cardiac surgery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pubs-pres"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.christianacare.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.christianacare.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.christianacare.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.christianacare.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.christianacare.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.christianacare.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.christianacare.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.christianacare.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.christianacare.org\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}