Adult ASD patients are rapidly becoming a relatively large population with a variety of clinical problems that often go unnoticed by paediatric physicians or grown-up congenital heart disease ...

Atrial septal defect (ASD) is one of the most common congenital heart diseases. The diagnosis of ASD via transthoracic echocardiography is subjective and time-consuming. The objective of this ...

Transcatheter closure of ostium secundum atrial septal defect has been performed for years using deep sedation or orotracheal intubation, transesophageal echocardiography and the sizing balloon ...