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 ...

Based on a few hundred cases, 5-year all-cause mortality was approximately 60% between patients assigned an initial management strategy of surgery and those undergoing percutaneous treatment (log-rank ...

BOSTON, MA—Rare, postinfarction ventricular septal defects (VSDs), which saw a worrisome resurgence during the COVID-19 pandemic, can effectively be treated surgically or percutaneously, with similar ...

Two days after influencer Estee Williams and her husband, Conner, welcomed their first child together, they learned that their daughter Estelle was born with a ventricular septal heart defect At 11 ...