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, ...

After bicuspid aortic valve, ventricular septal defects (VSDs) are the most common congenital heart abnormalities. Of all congenital defects, around 20% are solitary lesions and another 10% are ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Did you know that a baby can be born with a little hole in his heart? It's a common heart problem in newborn babies called Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD) that occurs when there is a gap between the ...

Recently, Bollywood actress Bipasha Basu revealed that her baby daughter born in November, 2022 had a congenital heart defect. This turned out to be a Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD) which is a hole ...

Facts about Ventricular Septal Defect - (http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/heartdefects/ventricularseptaldefect.html) Spicer DE, Hsu HH, Co-Vu J, Anderson RH, Fricker FJ ...

Muscular ventricular septal defects (mVSD) appearing together with other septal defects are frequently regarded as ‘concomitant’ pathologies, that nevertheless should be considered while the patient ...

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 ...