critical pulmonary valve stenosis (cpvs) and atrial septal defect (asd) is an uncommon form of congenital heart disease. concurrent transcatheter pulmonary valvuplasty and closure of secundum atrial septal defect appears to be an interesting alternative to surgical correction. we present the simultaneous balloon valvuloplasty of critical pulmonary stenosis (ps) with supra systemic right ventric...

absence of the sternum or asterniais the rarest developmental anomaly of the stern um. a female newborn is presented with asternia and asd.

bifid cardiac apex is a rare anomaly of human hearts. we report of the case of a 34-year-old man with a previous history of ventricular septal defect (vsd) and subvalvular pulmonary stenosis. he had undergone pulmonary commissurotomy and vsd closure 22 years before he was referred to our center for evaluation of progressive dyspnea. transthoracic echocardiography revealed atrial septal defect (...

background: closure of patent ductus arteriosus (pda), ventricular septal defect (vsd) and atrial septal defect (asd) can be done surgically or by device. this study was designed to compare the total cost of surgical or device closures of pda, asd or vsd for iranian patients. methods: this is a cross-sectional study, conducted from january 1, 2005 until january 1, 2006 in two large heart center...

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...

Transcatheter closure of atrial septal defect (ASD) has become an accepted alternative to surgery. A number of complications associated with ASD device closure have been recognized but most are rare or minor in severity. We report a rare complication of atrial septal laceration during transcatheter closure of secundum ASD. We discuss the diagnostic confusion, which resulted in the decision for ...

This case report describes a modification in the technique of atrial septal device closure in a patient with atrial septal defect (ASD) with associated atrial septum aneurysm and significant left-to-right shunt through multiple perforations. Graded balloon dilatation of the aneurysm was performed in this patient, as a preamble to successful deployment of a single large Amplatzer atrial septal o...