Parker et al. 4 reported immediate changes in the respective pressures in 21 patients during mitral commissurotomy — usually an immediate drop. The percentage reduction was higher for the pressure in ...

KARACHI, July 24: The Indus Hospital, which has been attending to children reporting with cardiac-related diseases in its out-patients’ department, finally performed a non-surgical opening of the ...

Six infants with complex cyanotic heart defects (CCHD) (tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) in two, transposition of the great arteries with ventricular septal defect (VSD) and pulmonary stenosis (PS) in two, ...

Aga Khan University Hospital has carried out the balloon pulmonary valvuloplasty procedure, a first in Kenya. The non-surgical process treats pulmonic stenosis — obstruction of normal blood flow in ...

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is examining percutaneous fetal balloon valvuloplasty for pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum and will publish guidance on its ...

Pulmonic valve regurgitation occurs when blood leaks abnormally backward from the pulmonary artery through the pulmonic valve into the right ventricle. This can result in right heart failure. Pulmonic ...

Doctors in Ho Chi Minh City have successfully performed Vietnam’s first officially approved fetal heart procedure, completing ...

In this Journal feature, information about a real patient is presented in stages (boldface type) to an expert clinician, who responds to the information, sharing his or her reasoning with the reader ...

Valvular pulmonary stenosis is a fairly common lesion, reported to occur in 10% of all patients with congenital heart disease. Echocardiographic features of significant pulmonary stenosis include ...

2.1.1 Congenital heart defects are the most common type of birth defect and include critical pulmonary stenosis, pulmonary atresia with a ventricular septal defect and pulmonary atresia with intact ...