Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adults with ventricular septal defects had poorer exercise capacity compared with adults without them, ...

Baby Estelle was born with an extremely large ventricular septal defect (VSD) and has been hospitalized in the PICU since November 2025 ...

In children with perimembranous ventricular septal defects (VSDs), closure with a catheter-delivered occluder device is safe, providing midterm outcomes similar to those of open-heart surgery, ...

Transcatheter interventions have transformed the management of ventricular septal defects (VSDs), offering a minimally invasive alternative to open surgical repair. These procedures involve ...

A rare series of heart defects classified as “single-ventricle disease” have been connected in the past to brain abnormalities, but the link has never been completely understood. Now, a study from the ...

Estelle was born with an extremely large ventricular septal defect (VSD) and was put on life support after going into cardiac arrest in December 2025 ...

In the largest multicenter clinical trial of children undergoing early-stage surgery for single-ventricle heart defects, differences in intraoperative management did not significantly affect ...

OVER the past seven years approximately 400 patients have been surgically treated at the Massachusetts General Hospital with the assistance of cardiopulmonary bypass. The majority of these patients ...

DORV-SA-VSD allows blood to flow from the left ventricle, through the defect in the septum to the aorta, while blood from the right ventricle will flow mostly into the pulmonary artery. A VSD that is ...

Heart defects occur in about one percent of babies and are called congenital heart defects (CHDs). Approximately half are mild, with no major disruption to normal heart function. With the remainder, ...