International journal of cardiology congenital heart disease the ACHD multi-modality imaging series: Imaging of atrial septal defects in adulthood

DIAGNOSTIC METHODS CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE The detection of atrial and ventricular septal defects with electrocardiographically synchronized magnetic resonance imaging

To evaluate the detectability of cardiac septal defects by electrocardiographically synchronized (ECG-gated) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), 48 subjects were imaged, including 18 normal and 30 abnormal subjects in whom 22 ventricular septal defects (VSDs) and nine atrial septal defects (ASDs) had been diagnosed angiographically. Two radiologists with ECG-gated cardiac MRI experience read the ...

Congenital Heart Disease Transcatheter Closure of Atrial Septal Defects with the Amplatzer Septal Occluder Clinical Results

Objective: To assess the short-term outcome following transcatheter closure of secundum atrial septal defect (ASD) in our hospital. Patients and Methods: Between June 2000 and November 2001, 20 patients diagnosed as secundum atrial septal defects underwent transcatheter closure of their defects using the Amplatzer septal occluder (ASO) device. Indications for 18 patients were larger atrial sept...

Congenital Heart Disease with Septal Defects

The presence of septal defects in congenital heart disease makes for a direct shunting of particulate matter from the venous to the arterial side of the circulation. In revieswing the literature we have been surprised to find that this phenomenon, with resultant brain abscess, has been second only to bacterial endocarditis as a septic cause of death. The subject deserves attention from the view...

Congenital heart defects in adulthood.

BACKGROUND More than 90% of children with congenital heart defects now survive into adulthood; just a few decades ago, survival was rare, particularly among patients with complex defects. The new population of adults with congenital heart disease presents a special challenge to physicians from all of the involved specialties. METHODS Selective literature review. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION A com...

Imaging congenital heart disease