When Su Lee was just seven years old, he found out he had a heart murmur, caused by a congenital heart defect. The heart murmur was discovered at a routine check-up after Lee was in a car accident ...

This paper presents serial cardiac-catheterization data showing spontaneous functional closure of large symptomatic defects in 3 infants. One had an associated moderate-sized patent ductus arteriosus ...

Aim: To find out the significance of murmurs heard during infancy. Methods: Retrospective audit of all infants with newly heard murmurs referred from April 2007 to October 2009 to cardiac clinics in ...

Describe the murmur of an atrial septal defect (ASD)? The murmur produced by an ASD is due to increased flow through the pulmonic valve, thus it is remarkably similar to that of pulmonic stenosis. The ...

TV host Emma Willis has revealed that she has been living unknowingly with a hole in her heart for her entire life. The 49 ...

When expectant parents imagine their baby’s beating heart, few consider the possibility of a structural issue being present from day one. Yet for thousands of families each year, this becomes reality ...

Aim: Aim is to find out outcome of children above 1 referred with murmurs. Methods: This is a retrospective audit of patients above 1 referred between April 2007 and October 2009 to consultant ...

had a hole in his heart, so doctors put a cork in it. The Amplatzer Septal Occluder device is a little more complicated than that, but the basic principle holds true. The device is a high-tech plug ...

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 ...