Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adults with ventricular septal defects had poorer exercise capacity compared with adults without them, ...

In children with perimembranous ventricular septal defects (VSDs), closure with a catheter-delivered occluder device is safe, providing midterm outcomes similar to those of open-heart surgery, ...

Rupture of the ventricular septum usually occurs early (within the 1st week) after myocardial infarction. It is unclear when the rupture occurred in this patient. Echocardiography allows direct ...

Percutaneous closure of symptomatic ventricular septal defects in children can be achieved with off-label use of an occluder device. A research letter published online November 7, 2012, ahead of print ...

The defects ranged from 1 to 2 cm. in diameter. Closure was accomplished in each case with a prosthetic patch. One patient had aortic regurgitation and an aneurysm of a sinus of Valsalva as well as a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . ORLANDO, Fla. — Babies who were born to women who were exposed to statin therapy during the first trimester of ...

DORV-SA-VSD allows blood to flow from the left ventricle, through the defect in the septum to the aorta, while blood from the right ventricle will flow mostly into the pulmonary artery. A VSD that is ...

In the largest multicenter clinical trial of children undergoing early-stage surgery for single-ventricle heart defects, differences in intraoperative management did not significantly affect ...

A 30-year-old patient, gravida 1, para 0, on the 21st week of gestation, was referred for fetal echocardiography due to suspected cardiac malformation. The patient had no specific medical, obstetrical ...