Ostium-Secundum Defect The 19 patients with this lesion ranged in age from twenty-three to fifty-seven, with an average age of thirty-eight years. All but 3 were women. Evidence of heart disease had ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . W.L. Gore and Associates announced its occluder device was approved by the FDA for percutaneous closure of ...

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 ...

The FDA has given its final nod to W.L. Gore & Associates Inc. to market the Cardioform ASD occluder, aimed at correcting a congenital anomaly that causes a hole in the wall between the two upper ...

Case 1. A 17-year-old boy was admitted to Walter Reed General Hospital for repair of an ostium-primum defect of the interatrial septum with an associated cleft mitral valve and mitral insufficiency.

What are the ECG findings of a secundum type atrial septal defect versus the primum type of atrial septal defect? The ECG of a patient with an atrial septal defect (ASD) should show a right bundle ...