An atrial septal defect is an opening in the wall that separates the upper chambers of the heart. It is one of the most common congenital heart defects, which are structural problems that develop ...

Adults younger than 50 years of age had more than double the risk of having a stroke from migraine or other nontraditional stroke risk factors rather than traditional risks such as high blood pressure ...

DALLAS, Sept. 23, 2020 -- A common congenital heart defect may reduce your ability to exercise especially as you grow older, regardless of whether it was corrected with surgery or previously deemed ...

Dr. William Liou (right) and Dr. Vishal Gupta (left) with a 3D model of a heart. Thanks to innovative work by one of WMU’s mechanical engineering professors, surgery to repair a hole in the heart ...

When a critically ill baby with dextro-transposition of the great arteries (D-TGA) was transferred to Children's Hospital Los Angeles last year—just hours after birth—the Heart Institute team saw ...

Parents of an 18-month-old baby girl, one of a set of twins, have made a desperate appeal for urgent financial support to ...

The diagnosis was made after an initial evaluation at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and follow-up visits to the Mayo Clinic and New Jersey's Atlantic Health/Morristown Medical Center. The ...

Inside your heart are four valves that act as traffic cops to ensure that blood flows in the correct manner. Sometimes these valves may become damaged, which may cause blood to back up into the heart ...

Bengaluru: Doctors at Narayana Health City successfully executed a robotic-assisted closure of a ventricular septal defect (VSD) in children. Led by Dr. Raghu M G, Senior Consultant, Cardiothoracic ...