Atrial septal defect (ASD) is a congenital heart condition where the formation of the connection between the atrial chambers is defective, thus allowing left-to-right shunting and the consequent risk ...

King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSH) has successfully performed a highly complex robotic heart surgery on a woman in her seventies who was living with seven ongoing cardiac ...

This paper presents serial cardiac-catheterization data showing spontaneous functional closure of large symptomatic defects in 3 infants. One had an associated moderate-sized patent ductus arteriosus ...

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 ...

We read with interest the paper of Mansour et al 1 on ocular pathology in congenital heart disease. In a recently published study, 2 we have focused our attention on the relationship between heart and ...

Readers of this issue of the Journal should be greatly interested in the report by Cayler of spontaneous closure of atrial septal defects in 3 infants. The purist may raise his eyebrows about the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . W.L. Gore and Associates announced its occluder device was approved by the FDA for percutaneous closure of ...

† Primum (2 patients), secundum (68 patients) and sinus defects (4 patients). § Surgical branch of the study. TEE = Transesophageal echocardiography. *Children and adults. † Percutaneous branch of the ...

A new study, presented today at the AATS 101st Annual Meeting, shows an association between decreased survival at five years and leaving an atrial communication at biventricular repair of unbalanced ...

A hole in the heart is a nonmedical term for a type of congenital heart defect. There are many types of holes in the heart, and most are present from birth. Around 1% of babies born in the United ...