patients and methods previously recorded data of 231 patients who underwent surgical closure of vsd between january 2009 and january 2012 at the rajaie cardiovascular medical and research center were retrospectively reviewed. vsd surgical repair was performed using continues suturing technique in group a patients (n = 163, 70.6%) and interrupted suturing technique in group b patients (n = 68, 2...

Surgical closure of an atrial septal defect was performed on 104 patients over the age of 40 at the Brompton Hospital. The hospital mortality was 9-6%, reducing to 2-7% in the last six years. There were five late deaths. A moderate increase in preoperative pulmonary artery systolic pressure did not influence mortality. Twenty-five per cent of patients in preoperative atrial fibrillation have be...

OBJECTIVE This study sought to prove the safety and feasibility of intraoperative device closure of atrial septal defect (ASD) with transthoracic minimal invasion in the older patients. METHODS From January 2006 to December 2009, 47 patients aged 50 years or more and suffered from atrial septal defect were enrolled in our institution. Patients were divided into two groups, 27 of which in grou...

The anatomy of the ostium primum atrial septal defect has been known since Rokitansky's description in 1875. However, until the introduction of cardiac catheterization and open heart surgery, information about the physiology and clinical features of this condition lagged behind knowledge of the morbid anatomy. Attempts at surgical correction have influenced the natural history, and information ...

Background & aim: Congenital heart disease is one of the most common malformations at birth that require timely recognition and treatment. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and etiology of detected heart murmurs and association between congenital heart disease and heart murmurs. Recognition of murmurs etiology would help us to manage and treat them properly. Methods: In this...

venous injections ofdextrose 5 per cent in water, for the detection and localisation of atrial and ventricular right-to-left shunts was evaluated in 70 adult patients. Based on their catheterisation data, 20 patients had a shunt at atrial level (group 1) and 14 patients a ventricular septal defect (group 2). Thirty-six patients without a shunt by oximetry served as controls. Echo contrast could...

This paper has a two-fold purpose: first, to present the signs and symptoms of atrial septal defect and thus outline the findings that help in making the clinical diagnosis, and secondly, to show that correct and early diagnosis is important, because this anomaly gives rise to serious, although frequently obscured, symptoms and disabilities more often than has been generally realized. Clinicall...

assessment of percutaneous patent foramen ovale and atrial septal defect closure complications. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging 2009;2:141–9. 22. Faletra FF, Nucifora G, Ho SY. Imaging the atrial septum using real-time threedimensional transesophageal echocardiography: technical tips, normal anatomy, and its role in transseptal puncture. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2011;24:593–9. 23. van den Bosch AE, Ten Ha...