SINCE the advent of open-heart surgery ventricular septal defects have become a surgically correctable anomaly. Surgeons, in their understandable enthusiasm, have recommended early repair of these ...

Alaric, born with several congenital heart defects, is a "super-bright" boy, his parents say.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adults with ventricular septal defects had poorer exercise capacity compared with adults without them, ...

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, ...

A rare series of heart defects classified as “single-ventricle disease” have been connected in the past to brain abnormalities, but the link has never been completely understood. Now, a study from the ...

OVER the past seven years approximately 400 patients have been surgically treated at the Massachusetts General Hospital with the assistance of cardiopulmonary bypass. The majority of these patients ...

Heart defect repair is surgery to fix a heart problem that prevents blood from flowing as it should through the heart. The doctor will make a large cut in your chest. The cut is called an incision. It ...

In the largest multicenter clinical trial of children undergoing early-stage surgery for single-ventricle heart defects, differences in intraoperative management did not significantly affect ...

Some babies are born with hearts that have missing or malformed parts. A series of delicate operations can fix the damage and extend the lives of these children. Some babies are born with a rare ...