BACKGROUND The pulmonary venous flow velocity pattern (PVFVP) in atrial septal defect (ASD) has not been previously studied in detail. Normally, PVFVP is primarily determined by the left heart performance. We hypothesized that the impact of left-sided heart dynamics on PVFVP is diminished in patients with ASD because of the presence of a left-to-right shunt into the low-resistance right side of...

INTRODUCTION Atrial septal aneurysm (ASA) is often associated with other atrial septal abnormalities, particularly with atrial septal defect type ostium secundum or patent foramen ovale. ECG signs of incomplete or complete right bundle branch block are known to be associated with atrial septal defects, however such correlation with other atrial septal abnormalities is not documented. CASE PRE...

tion versus transcatheter closure of ASD before comparisons can he made. The length of stay for patients undergoing transcatheter closure is reported to he 2 to 3 days.1-5y9 In our study, the most recent average length of stay was 6.1 days, hut since this study has ended, the length of stay for ASD operation is ~4 days. Recent reports on transcatheter closure devices do not discuss costs, inclu...

Forty-four-year-old male patient with surgical closure of ostium secundum type atrial septal defect at the age of 9 years had undergone radiofrequency catheter ablation of the cavotricuspid isthmus because of recurrent drug-resistant typical isthmus-dependent atrial flutter, with bidirectional isthmus block achieved. Only few days later he started to suffer again high-rate tachycardia. An atypi...

Conduction time from the region of the sinus node to the region of the atrioventricular (A-V) node was studied during open heart surgery in 13 patients with an endocardial cushion type atrial septal defect, eight patients with a secundum type atrial septal defect, one patient with a sinus venosus type atrial septal defect, and eight patients with an intact atrial septum. Internodal conduction t...

Isolated ostium secundum atrial septal defect (OS-ASD) may rarely lead to severe symptoms in infancy. Over a period of four years, 12 infants admitted to our hospital with severe congestive heart failure had an isolated OS-ASD. Their echocardiographic findings, clinical course, and outcome were outlined. All 12 infants had atypical findings including a holosystolic murmur parasternally and abse...

Atrial septal defect (ASD) is a common cardiac anomaly that may be first encountered in the adults and occurs more frequently in females. ASD accounts for 10% of congenital cardiac defects in adults. A 50 year old female patient posted for Total Abdominal Hysterectomy was diagnosed to have ostium secundum large ASD with mild tricuspid regurgitation with moderate pulmonary hypertension and mild ...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study is to compare the effectiveness and safety of thoracoscopic surgery and traditional median sternotomy. PATIENTS AND METHODS 64 patients with atrial myxoma and 114 patients with atrial septal defect were collected from Mar 2012 to Aug 2015. 40 atrial myxoma and 77 atrial septal defect (ASD) patients underwent totally thoracoscopic surgery technique, while 24...

Between January 1976 and July 1983, 217 patients with atrial septal defect underwent surgical repair at Children's Hospital. Thirty with a primum atrial septal defect and 26 who underwent cardiac catheterization elsewhere before being seen were excluded from analysis. Of the 161 remaining patients, 52 (31%) underwent preoperative cardiac catheterization, 38 because the physical examination was ...