The heart is divided into two sides by a wall called septum. The heart is a muscle that beats about hundred thousand times a day. Its main function is to pump blood to the whole body to supply oxygen ...

A patient-specific strategy focused on device positioning during TAVR procedures with a repositionable, self-expandable transcatheter heart valve (Evolut R/PRO; Medtronic) leads to significant ...

INJURY to the invisible subendocardial conduction system during surgical closure of congenital defects in the ventricular septum is an uncommon but extremely grave complication. 1,2 Impalement of ...

The 30-day new permanent pacemaker implantation rate was 19.0% in the high and extreme surgical risk population studied, Ibrahim Sultan, MD, of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, reported at ...

Perimembranous ventricular septal defects (VSDs) involving the membranous septum and the adjoining muscular septum are the most common form of congenital heart defect. Traditional surgical repair ...

A handful of nonmodifiable anatomic factors could help further pinpoint patients at high risk for needing a permanent pacemaker after TAVR with the Sapien 3 valve. In a single-center study, the risk ...

This communication reports 4 cases of pulmonary-valve atresia with intact ventricular septum and hypoplastic right ventricle in which angiography demonstrated large diverticula and sinusoids that ...

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 ...

Ventricular septal defect is an abnormal hole in the septum that separates the two bottom chambers of the heart called ventricles. Like Atrial septal defect (ASD), there are no evident reasons to say ...