Background: Secondary atrial septal defect is one of the most common congenital heart diseases, and treatment is required in cases of large defects. The aim of this study was to assess the short-term results of secundum ...

A 42-year-old man presented with orthopnea, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea, and ascites, which had progressed for the previous two months. Electrocardiogram was low voltage. Transthoracic echocardiography showed concentric ...

Background- Balloon pulmonary valvuloplasty (BPV) has emerged as the treatment of choice for patients with valvular pulmonary stenosis (PS). We report here our short and long–term outcomes of BPV in 64 patients with isolated ...

Objectives- As an invaluable surgical tool, autologous pericardium has been successfully used to repair many cardiac lesions. The encouraging results from its use in repairing heart valves have been applied to repair ...

Background- Pulmonary regurgitation (PR) is the most important residual lesion remaining after the repair of Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF). Through a thorough review of the data, statistics of patients undergoing pulmonary ...

Aims- The purpose of this study was to investigate whether there is any relation between mitral leaflet motion based on height-to-length ratio of the anterior mitral valve leaflet doming in diastole and the immediate outcome ...