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, ...

Using cardiac imaging during heart surgery can detect serious residual holes in the heart that may occur when surgeons repair a child's heart defect, and offers surgeons the opportunity to close those ...

Parents of an 18-month-old baby girl, one of a set of twins, have made a desperate appeal for urgent financial support to ...

WITH the ever increasing sophistication in cardiac surgery previously lethal injuries of the heart can now be repaired. We are reporting the successful management of a complex penetrating wound of the ...

The mother of a Shropshire baby who has travelled to the US for life-saving surgery has given an update on his planned ...

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 ...

Atrioventricular septal defect is a developmental irregularity in which a hole connects two or more chambers in your child’s heart. This hole may connect the top two, the bottom two, or all four ...

A congenital heart defect is a condition you’re born with. Types of heart defects vary in severity — with some, you’ll need surgery as a child, while others don’t need treatment until later in life or ...