An atrioventricular canal is a congenital heart defect that connects chambers of your child’s heart that shouldn’t be connected. Atrioventricular canals usually require surgical treatment. It ...

These defects range from primum atrial septum defects to ventricular septal defects, or complete absence of the interatrial septum (common atrium). Typically, AV canal defects are associated with ...

Nearly 40 years ago when Lis Dreizen's daughter Olivia was born with a congenital heart defect, doctors were grim about her chances to live. "I would cry simply looking at Olivia, and it was very ...

Doctors may also refer to an AVSD as an endocardial cushion defect or an atrioventricular canal defect. This article explores the symptoms, causes, diagnosis, and treatment of an AVSD.

His doctors said he had a complete atrioventricular canal defect, the kind of which is believed to have never before been repaired on a child in the U.S. with a minimally invasive procedure ...

Waltrip High School Ram Band member Jose Tovar was born with a complete atrioventricular canal defect in his heart and at 3 months-old he underwent his first open heart surgery.

Secundum atrial septum defect. Primum atrial septal defect. Complete AV canal with large primum atrial septal defect and aneurysmatic transformation of the ventricular septal defect.