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, ...

What Is a Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD)? A ventral septal defect, more commonly known as a ventricular septal defect (VSD), is a hole between your heart’s lower chambers, or ventricles. The defect ...

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 ...

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 ...

A broad spectrum of procedures ranging from basic diagnostic cardiac catheterization to transcatheter closure of atrial septal defects (ASDs) has progressed to the point where such techniques are ...

For a lot of people, a heart defect is something that’s discovered and treated in childhood. But what often goes unnoticed is that thousands of adults today are living with congenital heart defects ...

When a critically ill baby with dextro-transposition of the great arteries (D-TGA) was transferred to Children's Hospital Los Angeles last year—just hours after birth—the Heart Institute team saw ...

When a critically ill baby with dextro-transposition of the great arteries (D-TGA) was transferred to Children's Hospital Los Angeles last year—just hours after birth—the Heart Institute team saw ...