Heart defect repair is surgery to fix a heart problem that prevents blood from flowing as it should through the heart. The doctor will make a large cut in your chest. The cut is called an incision. It ...

THIS is the report of an acquired interventricular defect that developed at the site of an infarct high in the septum and was associated with partial heart block and a systolic murmur. In previous ...

The ventricles share a common septum and, therefore, the filling of one influences the compliance of the other. This phenomenon is known as direct diastolic ventricular interaction. The interaction is ...

Relatives with a pathogenic sarcomere gene variant have a lower risk for serious cardiac events than patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy but a higher risk than relatives without the variant.

When a critically ill baby with dextro-transposition of the great arteries (D-TGA) was transferred to Children's Hospital Los Angeles last year—just hours after birth—the Heart Institute team saw ...

Using cardiac imaging during heart surgery can detect serious residual holes in the heart that may occur when surgeons repair a child's heart defect, and offers surgeons the opportunity to close those ...

An atrioventricular septal defect (AVSD) is a condition in which there is a hole between the chambers of the left and right sides of the heart. Additionally, the valves between the chambers may not ...

Focused cardiac ultrasonography is a practical, transthoracic, qualitative or semiquantitative means of assessing cardiac size, structure, and function that is performed and interpreted by the ...

When medications aren’t doing enough to manage your hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), surgical procedures can offer real relief. HCM is a genetic heart condition in which parts of the heart muscle ...