Advances are helping people born with heart defects to make it into adulthood and retirement age. Medical care hasn't kept up ...

The doctor will make a large cut in your chest. The cut is called an incision. It usually is made through the breastbone (sternum). But some types of heart defects are repaired through a cut in the ...

Rushani D, et al. Circulation. 2014;33:173. Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most prevalent underlying cardiac condition in children with infective endocarditis (IE) in developed countries.

Congenital heart disease is a defect in the heart or its valves that occurs before birth ... They may also have pulmonary hypertension, which can cause poor growth and development, as well as heart ...

1 Rovigo General Hospital, Section of Congenital and Structural Heart Disease Interventions, Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Endoluminal Interventions Unit, Rovigo, Italy 2 Rush Center for Congenital ...

try to rejuvenate the long-standing discussion about the nature of the “ventricular septal defect ... defects, Reference Mostefa-Kara, Bonnet, Belli, Fadel and Houyel5 confirm that the use of eponyms ...

He elaborated, “Common structural congenital anomalies encompass heart defects, spina bifida, cleft lip or palate ... Various types of heart defects exist based on the affected area of the heart. For ...

The following is a summary of “Intraoperative Conduction Mapping to Reduce Postoperative Atrioventricular Block in Complex ...

An atrial septal defect is an opening in the wall that separates the upper chambers of the heart. It is one of the most common congenital heart defects, which are structural problems that develop ...