This study was designed to determine the reasons for the variability of the incidence of
congenital heart disease (CHD), estimate its true value and provide data about the …

Atrial septal defects are among the third most common types of congenital heart disease.
This group of malformations includes several types of atrial communications allowing …

Objective: To investigate the natural history of secundum atrial septal defects (ASDs) over
several years using serial echocardiographic studies. Methods: All patients with isolated …

Objectives. To establish the rate of spontaneous closure of atrial septal defects diagnosed
before age 3 months, 101 infants (mean age 26 days) with an interatrial shunt confirmed by …

Atrial septal defects (ASDs) are found more frequently in the pediatric population than in
adults, and improved diagnostic techniques with echocardiography (2DE) and Doppler …

Thirty seven healthy infants (18 born at full term and 19 preterm) were studied serially with
cross sectional and Doppler echocardiography to compare their postnatal circulatory …

Abstract Fifty-one preterm infants (< 1500 gm) who were supported by mechanical
ventilation were studied by use of serial color Doppler echocardiography to determine the …

Aims This study set out to assess indications, feasibility, complications, and clinical outcome
of percutaneous transcatheter device closure of atrial septal defects (ASDs) in infants with a …

Objectives: This study sought to determine institutional complication rates in a previously
underreported patient population and discuss referral indications. Background: There has …

Abstract Objective Although the ICD‐9‐CM code 745.5 is widely used to indicate the
presence of a secundum atrial septal defect (ASD), it is also used for patent foramen ovale …