SINCE the advent of open-heart surgery ventricular septal defects have become a surgically correctable anomaly. Surgeons, in their understandable enthusiasm, have recommended early repair of these ...

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, ...

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, ...

Heart defect repair is surgery to fix a heart problem that prevents blood from flowing as it should through the heart. The doctor will make a large cut in your chest. The cut is called an incision. It ...

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 rare series of heart defects classified as “single-ventricle disease” have been connected in the past to brain abnormalities, but the link has never been completely understood. Now, a study from the ...

While patients who undergo percutaneous closure of ventricular septal defect (VSD) have a high rate of in-hospital mortality, long-term outcomes are generally favorable in those who survive to ...

The cardiac fibrillator utilizes a step-down transformer to decrease the alternating-current line voltage to a maximum of about 8 volts. The metered output of this transformer is made variable from 0 ...

Dr. Sitaram Emani: Traditionally single ventricle heart defects were treated by making that single good ventricle pump blood to the body and allow the blood that's returning from the body to basically ...

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 ...

An atrioventricular canal is a congenital heart defect that connects chambers of your child’s heart that shouldn’t be connected. Atrioventricular canals usually require surgical treatment. It usually ...