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Percutaneous closure of a gigantic patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) with pulmonary hypertension with an atrial septal defect occluder in a 35-year-old woman

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  1. Department for Congenital Heart Defects, Heart and Diabetes Center, North-Rhine Westphalia, Georgstrasse 11, 32545, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany

    Michael Froehle, Nikolaus A. Haas, Christoph Happel & Kai Thorsten Laser

  2. Department of Surgery for Congenital Heart Defects, Heart and Diabetes Center, North-Rhine Westphalia, Georgstrasse 11, 32545, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany

    Eugen Sandica

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Froehle, M., Haas, N.A., Sandica, E. et al. Percutaneous closure of a gigantic patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) with pulmonary hypertension with an atrial septal defect occluder in a 35-year-old woman. Clin Res Cardiol 103, 319–323 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00392-013-0650-6

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