Ventricular septal defect (VSD) is the most common type of cardiovascular developmental anomaly and is an important risk factor for the substantially increased morbidity and mortality in newborns. Aggregating evidence implicates genetic defects in the pathogenesis of congenital VSD. However, VSD is genetically heterogeneous and the genetic determinants for VSD in most patients remain to be iden...

Ventricular septal defect (VSD) is the most common cardiovascular malformation and an important contributor to the substantial morbidity and mortality in infancy. Growing evidence suggests that genetic defects play important roles in the pathogenesis of congenital VSD. However, VSD is of great genetic heterogeneity and the genetic basis for VSD in the majority of the patients remains largely un...

BACKGROUND Muscular ventricular septal defects (VSD) are an important and difficult surgical problem. In the last few years a new alternative has emerged - possibility of VSD closure using percutaneous approach. AIM To present our experience in percutaneous closure of congenital muscular and one posttraumatic VSD. METHODS We treated 10 patients - 7 children (age 0.8-7 years) and 2 adults (4...

Ventricular septal defects (VSD) are the most common form of congenital heart disease, which is the leading non-infectious cause of death in children; nevertheless, the exact cause of VSD is not yet fully understood. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been shown to play key roles in various biological processes, such as imprinting control, circuitry controlling pluripotency and differentiation...

Echocardiograms (echo) and vectorcardiograms (VCG) from 40 infants with ventricular septal defects (VSD) were compared with cardiac catheterization data to assess noninvasively the hemodynamics of VSD. The specific aim was to use VCG parameters of right ventricular hypertrophy and echo parameters which reflect pulmonary artery pressure to identify all patients with a nonrestrictive VSD. The con...

Acute ventricular septal rupture - ventricular septal defect (VSD) following acute myocardial infarction remains a critical condition. We present an 80 year-old patient with an acute VSD following an acute inferior myocardial infarction. Percutaneous VSD closure with an Amplatzer ventricular septal occluder (AVSO) was performed successfully, two days after initial admission. In-hospital follow-...

Optical imaging with voltage-sensitive dyes (VSD imaging) can record neural activity over an area of several square centimeters with high spatiotemporal resolution. The relative contributions of subthreshold and suprathreshold activity to the VSD signal are, however, poorly understood, making it difficult to interpret the imaging result. This paper shows how the activity in a computational mode...

BACKGROUND The ventricular septal defect (VSD) is the most common form of congenital heart defects. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the results of the early complications and mid-term follow-up of the transcatheter closure of the VSD using the Amplatzer VSD Occluder. METHODS Between April 2012 and October 2013, 110 patients underwent the percutaneous closure of the perimembranous VS...

Ventricular septal defect (VSD) is a lethal complication of myocardial infarction. The event occurs 2-8 days after an infarction and patients should undergo emergency surgical treatment. We report on successful device closure of post-infarction VSD. A previously healthy 66-year-old male was admitted with aggravated dyspnea. Echocardiography showed moderate left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunc...

The use of nonbinary convolutional codes with Vector Symbol Decoding (VSD) was proposed to correct long burst errors in high data rate wireless networks. VSD allows the symbol size to easily and arbitrarily increase as desired. Therefore, the same technique can be used for both the current data rate and any upcoming data rate of new wireless network standards. Convolutional VSD is more attracti...