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Kurt Amplatz

Biography

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SIR-MSC Webinar 4/9/20: Clinician not technician: History and Future of VIR

 

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The Amplatzer Septal Occluder Device

 

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Cierre CIA

 

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Cierre de comunicación interauricular con dispositivo Amplatzer

 

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Cierre percutáneo de CIA

Dr. Kurt Amplatz is an Austrian radiologist and medical device inventor. He is best known for the invention of the Amplatzer Septal Occluder as well as the Amplatzer Cribriform Occluder, which is used for closing atrial septal defect, a common congenital heart defect found in infants. These devices are inserted by percutaneous catheter placement, thus avoiding open heart surgery. In 1958, he performed one of the first percutaneous catheterizations of the heart.