Postoperative cardiovascular studies were carried out in eight patients with ostium primum defect and cleft mitral valve. Apical systolic murmurs were present in all patients, but in seven of them no ...
Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther. 2007;5(6):1135-1146. Diagnosing a secundum ASD is more often than not incidental because the defect normally causes symptoms late in adult life. Echocardiography and ...
Atrial septal defects (ASDs) are the second most common type of congenital heart disease. The most frequent variant of ASD, the ostium secundum (OS) type, results from deficiency of the flap valve ...
bcm.tmc.edu Objective: To investigate the natural history of secundum atrial septal defects (ASDs) over several years using serial echocardiographic studies. Methods: All patients with isolated ...
The term “atrioventricular septal defect” (AVSD) covers a spectrum of congenital heart malformations characterised by a common atrioventricular junction coexisting with deficient atrioventricular ...
Unfortunately, however, there is a catch: under certain conditions, the repair can lead to new genetic defects—as in the case of chronic granulomatous disease. This was reported in ...
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