| Year of First Report |
Name of the Device (Investigators) |
| 1967 |
Ivalon foam plug (Porstmann et al) |
| 1976 |
Dumbbell-shaped plug (Mills and King) |
| 1979 |
Polyurethane foam covered single umbrella with miniature hooks(Rashkind & Cuaso) |
| 1983 |
Two opposing polyurethane covered umbrellas (Rashkind PDA OccluderSystem) |
| 1984, 1988 |
Botallo-occluder (Saveliev et al) |
| 1986 |
Detachable silicone double-balloon (Warnecke et al) |
| 1989 |
Conical nylon sack filled with segments of modified guide wire with a 1.5
cm long flexible wire cross bar attached to the distal end of the sack
(Magal et al) |
| 1990 |
Two polyurethane foam discs attached to each other with elastic thread
(Sideris et al) |
| 1990 |
Temperature-shape changeable, shape-memory polymer (polynorbornene)
(Echigo et al) |
| 1991 |
Adjustable Buttoned Device (Rao et al) |
|
1991 |
Clamshell ASD device (Bridges et al) |
| 1992 |
Gianturco Coil (Cambier et al) |
| 1993 |
Butterfly vascular stent plug (Nazarian et al) |
| 1993, 1996 |
Thermal shape-memory nickel-titanium coil (Liu et al) |
| 1993 |
Duct-occlude pfm (Le et al) |
| 1993 |
Cook Detachable Coil (Cambier et al) |
| 1994 |
Silicone-coated balloon expandable stent (Moss et al) |
| 1995 |
Conical-shaped stainless steel wire mesh (Pozza et al) |
| 1996 |
Flipper Detachable Coil (Uzun et al) |
| 1996 |
Gianturco-Grifka Sac (Grifka et al) |
| 1996 |
Infant Buttoned Device (Sideris et al) |
| 1996 |
Miniaturized duct-occluder pfm (Grabitz et al) |
| 1997 |
Polyvinyl Alcohol Foam Plug mounted on titanium core pin (Grabitz et al) |
| 1998 |
Amplatzer Duct-occluder (Masura et al) |
| 1999 |
Folding Plug Buttoned Device (Rao et al) |
| 2001 |
Wireless PDA Devices (Sideris et al) |
| 2001 |
Reinforced Duct-occlude pfm (Le et al) |
| 2001 |
Angulated Nitinol plug – Amplatzer (Kong et al) |
| 2002 |
Swivel disk and plug occluders – Amplatzer (Thanopoulos et al) |
| 2005 |
Amplatzer Vascular Plug (Hoyer) |
| 2005 |
Nit-Occlud coils (Celiker et al) |
| 2005 |
Inoue single-branched stent graft (Saito et al) |
| 2008 |
Amplatzer duct occluder II - ADO II (Thanopoulos et al) |
| 2008 |
Non-ferromagnetic Inconel MReye embolization coils (Grifka et al) |
| 2008 |
Amplatzer Vascular Plug with prefilled embolization coils (Glatz et al) |
| 2009 |
Self-expanding platinum-coated Nitinol device (Lertsapcharoen et al) |
| 2009 |
Chinese self-expandable occluder, similar to the Amplatzer occluder
(Yu et al) |
| 2009 |
Amplatzer Vascular Plug II (Cho et al) |
| 2009 |
Valved stent (Zhou et al) |
| 2010 |
Cardio-O-Fix occluder** (Białkowski et al) |
| 2011 |
Nit-Occlud PDA-R (reverse) device (Heath) |
* Amplatzer muscular VSD devices and various ASD occluding devices, including,
Rashkind, clamshell, buttoned, CardioSEAL, STARFlex, Amplatzer and Lifetech
atrial septal occluder devices and aortic stents (covered) have been used for
closure of large PDAs and are not separately tabulated.
**a self-expandable Nitinol wire-mesh device very similar to the Amplatzer
device. ASD, atrial septal defect; PDA, patent ductus arteriosus; VSD, ventricular
septal defect