The term “atrioventricular septal defect” (AVSD) covers a spectrum of congenital heart malformations characterised by a common atrioventricular junction coexisting with deficient atrioventricular ...

Coweta Fire Captain Benjamin Neff said the event will raise money for heart surgery for the infants. One newborn was born ...

The anomalies are (1) termination of the left superior vena cava in the left atrium, (2) absence of the coronary sinus, and (3) an atrial septal defect lying in the postero-inferior angle of the ...

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

Evelyn Hamm was born with a hole in the middle of her heart. But her parents and her doctors expected it. During her 20-week anatomy scan, doctors detected the congenital heart condition, an ...

[13] For the most frequent defect, the secundum ASD ... to close secundum ASD including the most widely used Amplatzer Septal Occluder® (AGA Medical Corp., MN, USA), the Starflex Occluder ...

Introduction: Many studies have investigated the impact of congenital heart defects (CHD) on child development. However, because CHD not only affects the child and his or her development but, also the ...

This condition rarely occurs in isolation and is often ventricular septal defect (VSD), which is seen in up to 90% of DCRV cases. DCRV may go undiagnosed until adulthood. As the degree of RVOT ...

A 9-month-old female Jack Russell Terrier was referred because of two episodes of suspected syncope. Echocardiography revealed a large, isolated mid-muscular ventricular septal defect (7 mm) with ...

In this edition of Cardiology in the Young, Anderson et al. try to rejuvenate the long-standing discussion about the nature of the “ventricular septal defect” in hearts with double-outlet right ...

A TEAM of Zimbabwean cardiothoracic surgeons together with a visiting team from Egypt have embarked on a week-long congenital ...