Beating-Heart Repair of Atrial Septal Defects (IMAGE)

Boston Children's Hospital

Beating-Heart Repair of Atrial Septal Defects

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When surgeons patched holes guided by ordinary 3-D ultrasound, they anchored their patches askew (left). Aided by stereoscopic vision (middle), they secured the patches with more evenly-spaced anchors (middle), results nearly as good as those with open-heart surgery (right).

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Images courtesy Nikolay Vasilyev, MD, Children’s Hospital Boston.

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