Atrial septal defect (ASD) is a hole in the wall between the heart’s two upper chambers. ASD is a congenital heart defect, meaning it is present from birth. In some cases of ASD, a small hole may only ...

When expectant parents imagine their baby’s beating heart, few consider the possibility of a structural issue being present from day one. Yet for thousands of families each year, this becomes reality ...

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 MRI ...

Heart murmur that resolves when a child moves from a supine to a standing position can reliably rule out pathologic heart murmurs in pediatric patients, a study found. Implementing this low-cost ...

This paper presents serial cardiac-catheterization data showing spontaneous functional closure of large symptomatic defects in 3 infants. One had an associated moderate-sized patent ductus arteriosus ...

When Su Lee was just seven years old, he found out he had a heart murmur, caused by a congenital heart defect. The heart murmur was discovered at a routine check-up after Lee was in a car accident ...

Aim: Aim is to find out outcome of children above 1 referred with murmurs. Methods: This is a retrospective audit of patients above 1 referred between April 2007 and October 2009 to consultant ...