Fatal cardiac atherosclerosis in a child 10 years after liver transplantation: a case report and a review.

We hereby review liver transplantation for homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia and report the case of a 14-year-old girl presenting with severe bilateral coronary ostial stenosis and tight supra-valvular aortic narrowing 10 years after liver transplantation. Despite normalization of the lipids after liver transplantation, the patient showed evidence of severe cardiac atherosclerosis 10 years later and died of apparent sepsis.

[Percutaneous closure of atrial septal defects using the Amplatzer device].

Percutaneous closure of an atrial septal defect (ASD) was undertaken in 10 patients aged from 3 to 33 years. The Amplatzer device was introduced intravenously and positioned under fluoroscopic and echographic control. The size of the ASD varied from 13 to 20 mm and that of the devices from 15 to 32 mm.