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.

Ventricular septal defect is a hole in the wall between the right and left ventricles of the heart. This abnormality usually develops before birth and is found most often in infants. The ...

A septal infarct is an area of dead tissue in the septum of the heart, which is a wall of tissue dividing the two sides of the heart. It happens when there is a blockage or reduction in its blood ...

A cardiac ASD (atrial septal defect) is a type of congenital heart disease (CHD). Approximately eight children out of a thousand are born with a CHD. About 10% of these CHDs are atrial septal defects.

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 ...

The chest x-ray reveals a normal heart size. The ECG shows a systolic ... 45 mm and 23 mm, respectively; a septum of 19 mm (normal, 6-11); an LV free wall of 10 mm (normal, 6-11); and a normal ...

Postprocedure atrial fibrillation and persistent atrial septal aneurysm had been found ... arrhythmias or heart failure, a cardiological consultation is always necessary during pregnancy but ...

If the finding on an ECG is “septal infarct, age undetermined,” it means that the patient possibly had a heart attack at an undetermined time in the past. Septal infarct is a patch of dead ...

During right heart catheterization, oxygen saturations are frequently measured from different cardiac chambers in order to identify left to right shunts. If a ventricular septal defect is present ...