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 ...

Atrioventricular septal defect is a developmental irregularity in which a hole connects two or more chambers in your child’s heart. This hole may connect the top two, the bottom two, or all four ...

A ventricular septal defect (VSD) is a hole in the septum, which is the wall separating the two lower chambers of the heart. In many cases, the hole closes on its own. A ventricular septal defect is a ...

If your doctor told you that you have a heart murmur, you’re probably wondering what that means. Is my health in danger? Will I always have a heart murmur? Do I need surgery? The good news is that ...

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 ...

Introduction: Heart murmurs in childhood are detected at any age Echocardiography is the gold standard to diagnose or rule out cardiac malformations As this tool is not always available, these ...

Influencer Estee Williams' daughter, Estelle, was born with a ventricular septal heart defect in September 2025 Estee Williams/Instagram Two days after influencer Estee Williams and her husband, ...

When Su Lee was just seven years old, he found out he had a heart murmur, caused by a congenital heart defect. The heart murmur was discovered at a routine check-up after Lee was in a car accident ...

An atrioventricular septal defect (AVSD) is a condition in which there is a hole between the chambers of the left and right sides of the heart. Additionally, the valves between the chambers may not ...