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 ...

BOSTON, MA—Rare, postinfarction ventricular septal defects (VSDs), which saw a worrisome resurgence during the COVID-19 pandemic, can effectively be treated surgically or percutaneously, with similar ...

Based on a few hundred cases, 5-year all-cause mortality was approximately 60% between patients assigned an initial management strategy of surgery and those undergoing percutaneous treatment (log-rank ...

The cardiac surgery department of Sawai Man Singh Medical College on Monday operated a patient for ventricular septal defect without cutting any bone, which it claims to be the first-of-its-kind in ...

The outlook for children who have atrial septal defects (ASDs) or ventricular septal defects (VSDs) is excellent. Advances in treatment allow most children who have these heart defects to live normal, ...