A Gerbode defect is technically a type of ventricular septal ... or diastolic dysfunction causing clinical heart failure. Prior endocarditis on the VSD Qp/Qs is > 1.5 and the pulmonary pressures ...

Factors such as age at repair, type of AVCD ... Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD): A defect in the wall (septum) that separates the heart's lower chambers (ventricles). Double-Patch Technique ...

An atrial septal defect of the secundum type is relatively common and occurs ... Over time, pulmonary hypertension can develop causing right heart enlargement and eventual pulmonary hypertension.

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 ...

1 Rovigo General Hospital, Section of Congenital and Structural Heart Disease Interventions ... IL Secundum atrial septal defect (ASD) is the most common and simple type of ASD.

corresponding to a ventriculoseptal defect (VSD) with functional left–right shunt (asterisk). a) Contrast-enhanced computed tomography: transverse four-chamber view of the heart at the level of ...

Diagnosing a secundum ASD is more often than not incidental because the defect normally causes symptoms ... outflow tract and a split second heart sound. A diastolic murmur may be heard due ...