Ostium-Secundum Defect The 19 patients with this lesion ranged in age from twenty-three to fifty-seven, with an average age of thirty-eight years. All but 3 were women. Evidence of heart disease had ...

Atrial septal defects (ASDs) are the second most common type of congenital heart disease. The most frequent variant of ASD, the ostium secundum (OS) type, results from deficiency of the flap valve of ...

Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther. 2007;5(6):1135-1146. Diagnosing a secundum ASD is more often than not incidental because the defect normally causes symptoms late in adult life. Echocardiography and MRI ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . W.L. Gore and Associates announced its occluder device was approved by the FDA for percutaneous closure of ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.- W. L. Gore & Associates (Gore) announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) premarket approval (PMA) of the GORE® CARDIOFORM ASD Occluder for the percutaneous closure of ...

An atrial septal defect is the persistence of a hole (the foramen ovale) in the wall (septum) between the right atrium and left atrium of the heart. The foramen ovale usually closes spontaneously ...

Case 1. A 17-year-old boy was admitted to Walter Reed General Hospital for repair of an ostium-primum defect of the interatrial septum with an associated cleft mitral valve and mitral insufficiency.

Ostium secundum atrial septal defect (OSASD) occurs as an isolated defect in 10% of individuals with congenital heart disease (CHD). In small nuclear-family studies (parents and siblings), OSASD is ...

What are the ECG findings of a secundum type atrial septal defect versus the primum type of atrial septal defect? The ECG of a patient with an atrial septal defect (ASD) should show a right bundle ...