Your cardiologist will advise you if your ASD needs treatment. The treatment is usually surgical closure of the defect to prevent the shunting of blood. It can be done via open-heart surgery or ...

A congenital heart defect is a problem with your heart ... Your doctor may need to repair a medium or large ASD with open-heart surgery or another procedure. They might seal the hole with a ...

Nur Haziqah Mohd Rosdi urgently requires surgery to close an atrial septal defect - or hole in the heart - and repair her ...

An atrial septal defect is a hole in the wall (septum ... covered with the heart’s natural tissue lining. Open-heart surgery, which may be necessary for very large defects or those with complex ...

[13] For the most frequent defect, the secundum ASD, percutaneous closure minimizes hospital stay and recovery time, avoids surgical wounds, and offers the same benefits as surgery. Successful ...

“I was pretty clear that I did not want to undergo an open heart surgery and after consulting ... revealing a large Sinus Venosus Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) with Partial Anomalous Pulmonary ...

Baby Arabella was diagnosed with Tetralogy of Fallot - a congenital heart defect - and underwent open heart surgery last week ...

Doctors at Kondapur KIMS Hospital also detected a large Atrial Septal Defect (ASD ... A portion of the lung had to be excised during the surgery, though fortunately without compromising ...

Revealing she'd had surgery a few weeks ago ... There are two main types of septal defects, atrial septal defect (ASD) and ventricular septal defect (VSD). "If the hole in the septum is in the atria – ...

Surgery to close an atrial septal defect is normally successful in 99 percent of cases. If the surgery is done in childhood, the enlarged heart will return to its normal size in four to 6 months ...

It was a few months before her Class 12 Board Examination that 16-year-old Aarthi (name changed) was diagnosed with atrial septal defect (ASD), after she complained of dizziness and fatigue.