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

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 ...

Pulmonary stenosis in five children, patent arterial duct in two children, and perimembranous ventricular septal defect in one were all corrected during the intervention. A 2-year-old child weighing 7 ...

Within the prior 24 months, I have had a financial relationship with a company producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients: Receive the the ...

She was born with a congenital heart defect, an Atrial Septal Defect, ASD, commonly known as a “hole in the heart” that ...

A youth was grabbed by the neck, headbutted and thrown to the ground during a dispute with a man about who owned a football.

The field of cardiovascular research has traditionally focused on the left heart's function, particularly in the context of left heart diseases (LHD), leading to significant advancements in ...

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 ...

This can happen for some reasons: A narrowing or blockage in the artery Too much fluid in the lungs or elsewhere around the body causes extra pressure on the heart A hole between two chambers (atrial ...

National Medical Center “20 of November”, Department of Congenital and Structural Intervention, México City, México An ostium secundum atrial septal defect (ASD) is a CHD that can be treated ...

Barring unforeseen rivals, Imricor will have a 100 per cent share of the MRI-guided cardiac catheter ablation market, writes ...