FRANKFURT, GERMANY--(Marketwired - July 22, 2016) - Nobles Medical Technologies II (NMT2) continued to surprise the more than 900 cardiologist and cardiac-specialist attendees at the CSI conference on ...

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 ...

After bicuspid aortic valve, ventricular septal defects (VSDs) are the most common congenital heart abnormalities. Of all congenital defects, around 20% are solitary lesions and another 10% are ...

A broad spectrum of procedures ranging from basic diagnostic cardiac catheterization to transcatheter closure of atrial septal defects (ASDs) has progressed to the point where such techniques are ...

While patients who undergo percutaneous closure of ventricular septal defect (VSD) have a high rate of in-hospital mortality, long-term outcomes are generally favorable in those who survive to ...

This paper presents serial cardiac-catheterization data showing spontaneous functional closure of large symptomatic defects in 3 infants. One had an associated moderate-sized patent ductus arteriosus ...

A novel study by Canadian physicians reported that the BioSTAR biodegradable implant achieved comparable closure rates to the Amplatzer Septal Occluder in children with atrial septal defect. A novel ...

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is examining endovascular closure of perimembranous ventricular septal defect and will publish guidance on its safety and efficacy to the NHS ...

https://doi.org/10.1086/678509 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/678509 Copy URL AbstractPatients with early repair of an isolated atrial septal defect (ASD ...

Ventricular septal defect (VSD) is a defect of the heart, where there are one or more holes in the wall (called the septum) that separates the two chambers of the heart (called the ventricles). This ...