SINCE the development of effective surgical methods for treating congenital heart lesions there has been a renewed emphasis on clinical diagnosis. Anomalous pulmonary venous connection is one of the ...

Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection, one type of “blue baby” syndrome, is a potentially deadly congenital disorder that occurs when pulmonary veins don’t connect normally to the left atrium of ...

Scimitar syndrome, a rare congenital heart disease, involves an anomalous pulmonary venous return where the right pulmonary veins return to the inferior vena cava instead of the left atrium. It is ...

Singer Amy Grant, 59, underwent heart surgery last week to correct a rare congenital heart condition. "She had open-heart surgery to correct a condition from birth the doctors discovered during a ...

PULMONARY hypertension is a serious and relatively frequent complication of the ostiumsecundum type of defect of the atrial septum. 1–4 It increases the symptoms and disability of cardio-respiratory ...