An atrioventricular canal is a congenital heart defect that connects chambers of your child’s heart that shouldn’t be connected. Atrioventricular canals usually require surgical treatment. It usually ...

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 anatomy, clinical diagnosis and molecular details of AVCD patients with mutations are summarized in Table 1. Partial AVCD was diagnosed in six patients, complete AVCD and cleft mitral valve in ...

Abbott's heart valve was approved by the FDA this year. For her family, 3-year-old Sadie Rutenberg is living proof that medical miracles are real. For the first year of her life, the Seattle baby was ...

The most commonly seen defects at birth are congenital heart defects (CHD). These anomalies arise when there is a failure of the heart or its major blood vessels to form properly during embryonic ...

The problem was a complete atrioventricular canal defect and accounts for only two per cent of all congenital heart diseases Doctors at Sagar Hospital Bangalore recently conducted a complex surgery on ...

A congenital heart defect is a condition you’re born with. Types of heart defects vary in severity — with some, you’ll need surgery as a child, while others don’t need treatment until later in life or ...