An atrial septal defect is an opening in the wall that separates the upper chambers of the heart. It is one of the most common congenital heart defects, which are structural problems that develop ...

LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwired - March 10, 2016) - Dr. Niels Erik Nielsen, Director of Structural Heart Interventions at the Linkoping University Hospital in Linkoping Sweden, successfully performed ...

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 ...

Q: I’m 65 years old, and I’ve been diagnosed with a-fib, and also atrial flutter. It used to come and go, but now it’s staying with me. I have a patch from an atrial septal defect repair as a child, ...

(UPDATED) For patients left with a persistent iatrogenic atrial septal defect (iASD) as a result of their transcatheter mitral valve procedure, taking the additional step of closing these defects does ...

Dr. Sridhar Sampath Kumar, has performed Mercy Hospital and Scranton’s first repair of the Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) using a percutaneous procedure, a simple skin puncture. Patients needing repair of ...

TCT 1: High Number of Angiographic Significant Lesions Are FFR Negative in STEMI Patients With Multivessel Disease Preliminary Insight Into the COMPARE-ACUTE Trial Receive the the latest news, ...

An atrial septal defect is an opening or hole in the wall that sits between the heart’s two upper chambers. The heart’s upper chambers are called the right and left atria. Some people refer to atrial ...