Background Atrial arrhythmias are common in patients with atrial septal defects (ASD) but
the effects of percutaneous closure on atrial arrhythmia prevalence is unclear. We …

Background The most common congenital anomaly in adults is secundum atrial septal
defect (ASD), which can be closed using a surgical or transcatheter approach. Despite the …

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine whether a transcatheter procedure or
surgical closure offers a better value proposition for atrial septal defect (ASD) closure …

Background: Atrial septal defects are a common form of CHD and dependent on the size
and nature of atrial septal defects, closure may be warranted. The paper aims to compare …

Background: The aim of this study was to prospectively perform ambulatory 24-h ECG
monitoring to assess the effects of transcatheter closure of atrial septal defect (ASD) …

Objectives. To compare the failure ratio and inhospital complications across three age
groups of patients and to investigate the effects of balloon sizing on the success and the …

Background Previous studies demonstrated that the incidence of atrial fibrillation (AF) was
significantly increased when patients aged≥ 40 years had surgical atrial septal defect …

Objective To evaluate the frequency of and risk factors for stroke as a presenting feature in
adult patients with secundum atrial septal defect (ASD); rates of post-closure atrial fibrillation …

Atrial tachyarrhythmia is a well-known long-term complication of atrial septal defect (ASD) in
adults, even after successful trans-catheter closure. However, the risk factors for early-onset …

Atrial septal defect (ASD) is one of the most common congenital heart defects. Transcatheter
device closure of ASDs is safe and effective with most of the reported data being described …