Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Here is a tricky case. Try to guess the diagnosis of this previously healthy 5-year-old boy who starts to ...

Aim: To find out the significance of murmurs heard during infancy. Methods: Retrospective audit of all infants with newly heard murmurs referred from April 2007 to October 2009 to cardiac clinics in ...

A ventricular septal defect (VSD) is a hole in the septum, which is the wall separating the two lower chambers of the heart. In many cases, the hole closes on its own. A ventricular septal defect is a ...

SINCE the advent of open-heart surgery ventricular septal defects have become a surgically correctable anomaly. Surgeons, in their understandable enthusiasm, have recommended early repair of these ...

Heart murmur that resolves when a child moves from a supine to a standing position can reliably rule out pathologic heart murmurs in pediatric patients, a study found. Implementing this low-cost ...

A small ventricular septal defect is termed “maladie de Roger” or Rogers’s disease after the initial describer in 1879 Henri Louis Roger, a pediatric cardiologist known as an expert in cardiac ...