AMONG the complications that may plague the patient with myocardial infarction, there are few more dramatic or serious than rupture through an infarct involving the interventricular septum. To be sure ...

THIS is the report of an acquired interventricular defect that developed at the site of an infarct high in the septum and was associated with partial heart block and a systolic murmur. In previous ...

Incomplete development of the endocardial cushion and the atrioventricular septum is responsible for the development of AV canal defects. These defects range from primum atrial septum defects to ...

Cardiac-specific deletion of the receptor IA of bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) (ALK3) by Cre recombinase driven under the α-MHC promoter is lethal in mid-gestation with defects in the ...

The heart is divided into two sides by a wall called septum. The heart is a muscle that beats about hundred thousand times a day. Its main function is to pump blood to the whole body to supply oxygen ...

Atrioventricular septal defect is a developmental irregularity in which a hole connects two or more chambers in your child’s heart. This hole may connect the top two, the bottom two, or all four ...

Muscular ventricular septal defects (mVSD) appearing together with other septal defects are frequently regarded as ‘concomitant’ pathologies, that nevertheless should be considered while the patient ...

An atrioventricular septal defect (AVSD) is a condition in which there is a hole between the chambers of the left and right sides of the heart. Additionally, the valves between the chambers may not ...

The septum of the heart is a wall of tissue that separates the left and right sides of the heart and enables blood to flow as it should. It consists of the atrial septum and the ventricular septum.