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The natural history of atrial septal defect becomes increasingly difficult to determine with the number of patients having operations. The expectation of life has been calculated for those surviving ...

However, little is known, on the effect of such procedures on pre-existing tricuspid regurgitation (TR). We assessed the potential reduction in the severity of TR after atrial septal defect (ASD) ...

Reproduced with permission from [10]. Congenital heart defects can include atrial septal defect, ventricular septal defect, patent ductus arteriosus, coarctation of aorta and tetralogy of fallot.

Diagnosing a secundum ASD is more often than not incidental because the defect normally causes symptoms ... the need for concomitant atrial antiarrhythmia surgery and likelihood of symptomatic ...

An increased burden of premature atrial contractions (PACs) has long been considered a benign phenomenon. However, strong evidence of their involvement in the occurrence of atrial fibrillation (AF), ...

Atrial fibrillation (AFib) can affect life expectancy due to factors that include age, underlying health conditions, race, and how this common cardiac arrhythmia—or abnormal heart rhythm— is treated.

APCU 45 Overcoming the odds: successful repair of post-infarction inferoseptal ventricular septal rupture (20 January, 2025) Free ...