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 ...

NMT Medical, Inc received FDA Pre-Market Approval for the company’s ventricular septal defect (VSD) closure device called STARFlex®. The device, a percutaneously delivered double umbrella, has already ...

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 ...

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 ...

The cardiac surgery department of Sawai Man Singh Medical College on Monday operated a patient for ventricular septal defect without cutting any bone, which it claims to be the first-of-its-kind in ...