We have had the opportunity of studying 17 patients and wish to add our findings to the scant literature on this benign cardiac malformation. We emphasize the fact that this anomaly is more common ...

Hello and greetings from Bronx, New York. This is Ronald Wharton. I am a cardiologist at Montefiore Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. I thought I'd share with you something ...

Midsystolic murmurs — also known as systolic ejection murmurs, or SEM — include the murmurs of aortic stenosis, pulmonic stenosis, hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy and atrial septal defects. A ...

Pulmonary Circulation, Vol. 5, No. 1 (March 2015), pp. 204-210 (7 pages) AbstractPeripheral pulmonary artery stenosis (PPAS) is an underrecognized condition in the adult population. PPAS can lead to ...

Once your examination of the left lower sternal border is completed, move up to the left upper sternal border. Pulmonic valve murmurs and patent ductus arteriosus are loudest here, and it is the best ...

Two decades of experience with stenting to treat pulmonary vein stenosis in children at one of the foremost US centers for the procedure paints a sobering picture, one of short-term success against a ...

An ostium primum atrial septal defect (ASD) occurs when then atrial septum near the atrioventricular valves has a communication between the two atrium causing a left to right shunt. This rarely ...

Acute pulmonary embolism (PE) is a life-threatening condition in which blood clots block vessels carrying deoxygenated blood ...

OVER the past seven years approximately 400 patients have been surgically treated at the Massachusetts General Hospital with the assistance of cardiopulmonary bypass. The majority of these patients ...