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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...