パネルディスカッション04（I-PD04）
カテーテルインターベンション「心房中隔欠損カテーテル治療の限界点」

[I-PD04-1] 【基調講演】State of the Art and Future Directions for ASD Closure

^○Gareth J Morgan (The Heart Institute, Children's Hospital of Colorado / University of Colorado, School of Medicine / Department of Cardiology, University of Colorado Hospital)

ASD Closure has developed into the standard of care for children and young adults with significant defects. It is now only occasional defects which require surgical closure in most established practices. This status has been earned by an iterative and evolutionary response to device design and technique. The current devices and those which are within a few years of availability are fundamentally different from the first devices used for closure. How much more can technology give for a procedure which is effectively just closing a hole?