Closure of atrial septal defects: is there still a place for surgery?
Transcatheter device occlusion has become an established treatment for ASD closure, achieving optimal results in older children and adults with anatomically suited ASD type II and PFO. However, a partial inferior sternotomy offers a valuable and complementary operative approach for all ASD variants, maintaining the predictable success of surgery, with the obvious advantages of minimal access in terms of morbidity, cosmetics and hospital stay.
Fourier full reconstruction is faster and more accurate than Zernike reconstruction, makes optimal use of slope information, and better represents ocular aberrations of highly aberrated eyes.