Ventricular septal defect (VSD) is a mechanical complication of acute myocardial infarction (MI) with a very high mortality, despite advances in surgical and circulatory support. The tremendous ...

Surgical closure of the ventricular septal defect is the most commonly performed procedure in pediatric cardiac surgery. There are conflicting data on weight at operation as risk factor for a ...

Background: Post-infarction ventricular septal defect (VSD) repair is in general performed on a cardioplegic heart. An alternative concept is VSD repair on a beating heart. Aim of the study was to ...

Background: Post-infarction ventricular septal defect (PIVSD) formation is a rare but devastating complication of ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Objective: To determine the association of ...

LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwired - March 10, 2016) - Dr. Niels Erik Nielsen, Director of Structural Heart Interventions at the Linkoping University Hospital in Linkoping Sweden, successfully performed ...

Objective: To retrospectively assess the outcomes of open-heart repair for ventricular septal defect in children using a right vertical axillary incision compared to median sternotomy. Method: From ...

The heart is comprised of 4 separate chambers, 2 atria and 2 ventricles. The purposes of the ventricles and atria with their intervening septae are to separately pump deoxygenated blood on the ...

Despite small case series, guidelines for IMPELLA 5.5 state post-MI VSD as a contraindication for Impella placement as it could cause worsening right to left shunting. Notably, no patients experienced ...

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 ...

Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is associated with a significant morbidity and mortality in premature infants. We sought to identify the frequency of NEC in very-low-birth-weight infants with isolated ...