Alaric, born with several congenital heart defects, is a "super-bright" boy, his parents say.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Based on a few hundred cases, 5-year all-cause mortality was approximately 60% between patients assigned an initial management strategy of surgery and those undergoing percutaneous treatment (log-rank ...

ANYANG, South Korea--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NEL Animal Cardiovascular Center, a private 24-hour animal hospital in South Korea, said that its cardiac surgery team has successfully performed the world’s ...