...Mingfei Li; Dawei Lin; Jianing Fan; Feng Zhang; Wenzhi Pan; Daxin Zhou; Junbo Ge Introduction: Atrial septal defect (ASD) is one of the most common congenital heart malformations. Although not recommended, a significant proportion of patients with aortic root defects receive ASD closure, some...

...Xin Zhang; Yangyang Huang; Lihong Wang; Lifang Ye; Jun Tang Introduction: An accurate evaluation of atrial septal defect (ASD) is important for the success of interventional treatment. Cardiac computed tomography (CT) has unique advantages for ASD assessment, although transesophageal...

...) for closure of atrial septal defects (ASDs) in swine. Methods: ASDs were created by transseptal needle puncture followed by balloon dilatation in 20 piglets. The experimental group comprised 18 animals, while the remaining 2 animals were used as controls. Effectiveness and safety were evaluated by rectal...

...Chunhui Cao; Zhonghua Wang; Jun Huang; Lingxia Fan; Ren Li; Shushui Wang; Yufen Li; Zhiwei Zhang Objective: The aim of this work was to evaluate the feasibility and safety of transcatheter closure procedures for the treatment of atrial septal defects (ASDs) with insufficient rims. Methods: A total...

...Jinyoung Song; I-Seok Kang; Sung-A Chang; June Huh; Seung Woo Park Objectives: It was our aim to evaluate whether the defect area plays a crucial role in successful device closure of atrial septal defects (ASDs). Methods: The long and short diameters of the defect were measured on en-face images...

... of the patent foramen ovale or atrial septal defect, with favorable results, making it the first-line therapeutic approach nowadays. Platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome (POS) is an interesting condition with a somehow puzzling pathophysiology. There are different diseases that can cause platypnea...

... and small LV cavity size or in patients with coexisting severe mitral regurgitation. This report illustrates the case of a paradoxical low-flow, low-gradient severe AVS despite preserved LV function related to an ostium secundum atrial septal defect (ASD) in a patient presenting with congestive heart...

...Yoshiaki Hirose; Yoshio Ishida; Kohei Hayashida; Toru Satoh; Yoriko Shimotsu; Tsunehiko Nishimura We report on a 47-year-old woman who experienced an Eisenmenger reaction (mean pulmonary artery pressure: 86 mm Hg) induced by atrial septal defect. Radionuclide myocardial scans with 99m Tc-MIBI...

...Stella Brili; Brian McClements; Stamatis Castellanos; Maria Apostolidou; John Barbetseas; Christos Pitsavos; Pavlos Toutouzas The aim of this study was to elucidate the mechanism by which an atrial septal aneurysm is formed in the presence of an atrial septal defect by characterizing...

...Masao Nakagawa; Kyoko Kimura; Yoshiro Watanabe We describe an uncommon association: atrial septal defect with an anomalous left coronary artery originating from the pulmonary trunk (Bland-White-Garland syndrome) in a 2-month-old patient with Klinefelter syndrome. Electrocardiogram and two...

...Joseph Joy; C.C. Kartha; K.G. Balakrishnan Mitral valve (MV) specimens obtained at operation from 50 patients with ostium secundum atrial septal defect and associated MV dysfunction were studied macro- and microscopically to evaluate the structural lesions. The functional abnormalities...

...Shin-ichi Koumi; Takao Endo; Noritake Hata; Morimasa Takayama; Yuji Sugiki; Hirotsugu Atarashi; Hirokazu Hayakawa; Hidemasa Okumura We describe a 65-year-old woman who had coronary artery-left ventricular fistula associated with atrial septal defect of the sinus venosus type, and left-sided heart...

...Giorgio Puviani; Luciano Delia Casa; Leonardo Venezia Systolic time intervals (STI) were evaluated in 19 female patients with uncomplicated ostium secundum atrial septal defect (ASD), before, shortly after (within 2 months) and a long time after the corrective surgery (mean 13.2 years...

...Kolbjørn Forfang 84 patients without concomitant pulmonary or cardiac disease, underwent surgery for atrial septal defect of the secundum type (ASD II) at the age of 40 years or more. Hemodynamics were studied preoperatively at rest, and postoperatively at rest and during exercise during a follow...

...Kolbjørn Forfang Surgery for atrial septal defect of the secundum type was performed in 84 patients over 40 years of age. Electrocardiograms were studied preoperatively and at a follow-up visit 74 months (range 22–174 months) after surgery. Preoperatively, atrial fibrillation was observed in 13...

...Kolbjørn Forfang 10 middle-aged patients with atrial septal defect of the secundum type (ASD II) were referred to surgery, but for several noncardiological reasons the operation was not performed. 5 patients were reexamined after an interval from 6½ to 15 years. During the follow-up period only...

...Pierre Atlas; Victor Deutsch; Abraham Palant; Jehuda E. Kalter; Henry N. Neufeld Multiple anomalies of persistent left superior vena cava and left hepatic vein emptying into the left atrium associated with atrial septal defect, right aortic arch and multiple skeletal malformations are presented...

... was to determine the prevalence of NANSAID use in patients diagnosed with cryptogenic emboli or paradoxical embolic events from a patent foramen ovale (PFO) or atrial septal defect (ASD) compared with a control population with an incidental PFO/ASD and no history of embolic events. Methods: We performed...

...Hrodmar Helgason; Magnus Johansson; Björn Söderberg; Peter Eriksson In a retrospective study of 51 consecutive patients undergoing transcatheter closure of secundum type atrial septal defects (ASDs), we examined the reliability of transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) prior to catheterization...

...Martial M. Massin; Bénédicte Derkenne; Götz von Bernuth The aim of this study was to assess heart rate variability, a noninvasive parameter for studying the neurohumoral control of heart rate, in children with atrial septal defect. We examined five time-domain and three frequency-domain indices...