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 MRI have completely replaced ...

An atrial septal defect of the secundum type is relatively common and occurs from failure of the septum secundum to develop. This results in a communication between the left and right atrium ...

Nineteen patients had an ostium-secundum type of atrial septal defect ... series the patients with ventricular defects also did well until adult life. Moderate elevation of pulmonary-artery ...

If an atrial septal defect is large, heart failure may occur, although this is not common in children. Many children have no symptoms. So this defect may not be found until a child is older or becomes ...

An ostium primum atrial septal defect (ASD) occurs when then atrial septum near the atrioventricular valves has a communication between the two atrium causing a left to right shunt. This rarely ...

From 1951 to 1981 we evaluated 79 adult patients with ventricular septal defect with no other associated cardiac malformations. There were 42 men and 37 women ranging in age from 18 to 59 years ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The Tri-Service General Hospital Penghu Branch announced Tuesday that it has performed the first-ever transcatheter atrial septal defect (ASD) closure procedure in Taiwan’s ...