The procedure, believed to be the first of its kind, was performed at the 2026 European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery annual meeting in Barcelona, Spain.

My daughter underwent open heart surgery for the closure of atrial septal defect at the age of 4. At that time she did not have any symptoms and it was detected by chance. She does not have any ...

Atrial septal defects (ASDs) encompass a spectrum of interatrial communications that permit left-to-right shunting, leading to right heart volume overload and eventual pulmonary vascular changes.

When Su Lee was just seven years old, he found out he had a heart murmur, caused by a congenital heart defect. The heart murmur was discovered at a routine check-up after Lee was in a car accident ...

The AI model was more efficient at detecting signatures of atrial septal defect (ASD) in electrocardiograms (ECG) than traditional methods. Investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital, a founding ...

A teacher from Kingswinford was inspired to take the leap and set up his own business after open-heart surgery taught him that life is too short not to take risks and pursue your ambitions.

Chikkaballapur: A doctor based in Barcelona, Spain, has performed robotic heart surgery on a woman at a hospital in Muddenahalli, Karnataka, from a distance of more than 12,000 km. The surgery was ...

The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Shanghai Children's Medical Center (Approval No. SCMCIRB-K2022037-1) with a patient exemption applied. All patients were examined with ...