Transcatheter Closing Atrial Septal Defect in a Child With Hereditary Spherocytosis

• Main Authors: Zhixian Ji (Author), Na Liu (Author), Zhanhui Du (Author), Gang Luo (Author), Zhen Bing (Author), Quansheng Xing (Author), Silin Pan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2019-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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A 3-year-old girl was admitted to our hospital for the correction of atrial septal defect (ASD). Open heart operation with cardiopulmonary bypass is dangerous because the patient also had hereditary spherocytosis, which put her at risk for hemolytic anemia. Therefore, percutaneous transcatheter clos...