North West doctors successfully performed a life-changing procedure on a 21-year-old patient with a congenital cardiac condition called atrial septal defect. North West Health MEC Madoda Sambatha said ...

The baby's family was told that the operation carried a high success rate. The chief surgeon of a five-month-old baby girl's ...

Screenshot from website of the the Ningbo University Affiliated Women and Children's Hospital. The tragic death of a 5-month-old baby girl nicknamed "Little Luoxi" after surgery a ...

When Su Lee was just seven years old, he found out he had a heart murmur, caused by a congenital heart defect. The heart murmur was discovered at a routine check-up after Lee was in a car accident ...

Atrial septal defect (ASD) is a hole in the wall between the heart’s two upper chambers. ASD is a congenital heart defect, meaning it is present from birth. In some cases of ASD, a small hole may only ...

Atrioventricular septal defect is a developmental irregularity in which a hole connects two or more chambers in your child’s heart. This hole may connect the top two, the bottom two, or all four ...

When expectant parents imagine their baby’s beating heart, few consider the possibility of a structural issue being present from day one. Yet for thousands of families each year, this becomes reality ...

Berhampur: A 23-year-old woman has received a new lease of life after a team of surgeons of MKCG Medical College and Hospital here conducted a successful open heart surgery. Doctors said the surgery ...

Emma Willis discovered she had been living with a hole in her heart last year and has recently undergone surgery. (Getty Images) The Voice presenter Emma Willis, 49, has had keyhole surgery after "48 ...