OBJECTIVES Percardiac device closure of ventricular septal defects (VSDs) is considered as an alternative to surgical repair in certain patients; however, the safety and validity of this technique in subaortic VSD are unproven. METHODS A total of 463 patients with subaortic VSD underwent two different operative procedures. The clinical data were collected and a retrospective analysis was perf...

In recent years, many types of variable stiffness devices are developed. These devices have an ability to change the stiffness of a mechanical system. They can also store energy thanks to elastic elements, and convert it to kinetic energy. By installing these devices in the mechanical system, it is expected that an actuator’s energy which is required to achieve a periodic motion will be reduced...

Ventricular septal defect (VSD) is the most common congenital heart malformation and can be detected during the prenatal and postnatal period, in childhood, and in adulthood. Spontaneous closure of VSD can be determined through a variety of methods-echocardiography, Doppler color flow imaging, angiography, auscultation, and cardiac catheterization-and can be proven by pathological evidence at n...

A ventricular septal defect (VSD) is one or more holes in the wall that separates the right and left ventricles of the heart. VSD is one of the most common congenital (present from birth) heart defects. Many types of VSDs have been reported, including congenital VSDs, post-infarction VSDs (1), and post-traumatic VSDs (2). Furthermore, there are four types of congenital VSDs; perimembranous VSD ...

Surgical site infection (SSI) continues to be an issue in abdominal surgery, especially for contaminated (class III) and dirty-infected (class IV) wounds. Vacuum sealing drainage (VSD) was reported effective in the management of various types of wounds or skin grafts. Our goal was to investigate the efficacy of prophylactic VSD to better orient their medicosurgical care of high-risk incisions f...

We read with great interest the article by Pekel et al. (1) titled “Directly ventricular septal defect closure without using arteriovenous wire loop: our adult case series using transarterial retrograde approach” published in the Anatolian Journal of Cardiology in this issue. Ongoing progress in the interventional techniques has now made the transcatheter closure of anatomically selected ventri...