Small atrial septal defects often cause very few problems and may be found much later in life.

Not all patients with atrial septal defects can have this procedure.

He repaired an atrial septal defect in an 18-year-old woman.

If it does not, this is an atrial septal defect (hole in the heart).

An atrial septal defect is one possible cause of a right bundle branch block.

These small iatrogenic atrial septal defects usually disappeared within six months.

Call your health care provider if symptoms indicating an atrial septal defect develop.

With a small to moderate atrial septal defect, a person may live a normal life span without symptoms.

For the heart defect of the same name, please see atrial septal defect.

She had open-heart surgery to repair an atrial septal defect at age 13.

A heart abnormality, atrial septal defect, was also apparent but required no intervention.

Several forms of atrial septal defects are recognized.

An atrial septal defect is an opening in the wall that separates the upper chambers of the heart.

If an atrial septal defect is large, heart failure may occur, although this is not common in children.

There are many types of atrial septal defects.

In adults with undetected atrial septal defects, various respiratory problems and/or heart failure may develop.

This is the second most common type of atrial septal defect and is commonly seen in Down's syndrome.

Persistence of the ostium secundum is the most common atrial septal defect.

As blood returns from the lungs to the left atrium, it must pass through an atrial septal defect to the right side of the heart.

They represent 10% of atrial septal defects.

Defects of this process produces various atrial septal defects.

Once someone is found to have an atrial septal defect, a determination of whether it should be corrected has to be made.

Atrial septal defect or other defects involving the upper chambers (atria) of the heart.

An atrial septal defect in that the foramen ovale fails to close at birth.

An ostium secundum that persists at large size can be a source of atrial septal defects.