Experience of Percutaneous Closure of Ventricular Septal Defects in 140 Patients With Different Duct Occluders in a Tertiary Care Rural Hospital in Central India

BackgroundVentricular septal defects (VSDs) are the most common type of septal defects in early infants and are very complicated. This has paved the way for the development of new minimally invasive procedures for interventional cardiologists. This study presents our experience using duct occluders instead of conventional ventricular septal devices in the Department of Cardiology at Acharya Vinoba Bhave Rural Hospital (AVBRH) in central rural India. This study aimed to review success and complications and assess safety and its relation to age, sex, size of the VSDs, type of VSD, and types of devices used after transcatheter closure of perimembranous and muscular VSDs using various types of duct occluders.MethodologyThis retrospective study included patients who underwent percutaneous VSD device closure at the AVBRH between July 2017 and December 2020. We reviewed the patients' medical records to recognize imaging, clinical, and interventional data pre- and post-procedure and at the last follow-up.ResultsThe success rate of VSD closure was 98.6%, one (0.7%) out of 81 females developed a complication due to device dislodgement, and one male aged six years (0.7%) out of 59 developed a post-procedural complication; hence, the total failure rate was 1.4%. The perimembranous type had no complication, and the muscular type had two (14.3%) unsuccessful procedures.ConclusionThis study has concluded an impressive percentage of VSD closure, showing no mortality and low morbidity, using a percutaneous approach with different duct occluders. As the type of device used is not correlated with device failure and failure rate, duct occluders will be financially helpful in the closure of VSD in indicated patients.