| Year of First Clinical Report |
Name of the Device |
| 1976 |
King and Mill’s Device |
| 1977 |
Hooked Rashkind Device |
| 1983 |
Double-disk Rashkind Device |
| 1990 |
Clamshell Occluder |
| 1990 |
Buttoned Device (1st, 2nd & 3rd generation) |
| 1991 |
ASDOS (ASD Occluding System) |
| 1993 |
Monodisk Device |
| 1994 |
Modified Rashkind PDA umbrella device |
| 1997 |
Inverted Buttoned Device |
| 1998 |
Das Angel Wing Device |
| 1998 |
Amplatzer Septal Occluder |
| 1998 |
CardioSEAL/StarFLEX Devices |
| 2000 |
Buttoned Device (4th Generation) |
| 2000 |
HELEX Septal occluder |
| 2001 |
COD (Centering-on-demand) Buttoned device |
| 2002 |
Transcatheter patch |
| 2003 |
BioSTAR and BioTREK |
| 2007 |
ATRIASEPT I |
| 2008 |
Occlutech |
| 2008 |
ATRIASEPT II |
| 2008 |
Solysafe septal occlude |
| 2010 |
ULTRASEPT |
| 2010 |
The pfm ASD-R Device |
Cardi-O-Fix Septal Occluder, Heart R Septal Occluder, LifetechScientific device
(similar to Amplatzer device manufactured in China) and others that may have
escaped detection by our literature search may be in development