THIS is the report of an acquired interventricular defect that developed at the site of an infarct high in the septum and was associated with partial heart block and a systolic murmur. In previous ...

AMONG the complications that may plague the patient with myocardial infarction, there are few more dramatic or serious than rupture through an infarct involving the interventricular septum. To be sure ...

The heart is divided into two sides by a wall called septum. The heart is a muscle that beats about hundred thousand times a day. Its main function is to pump blood to the whole body to supply oxygen ...

TCT 66: Similar Short and Long-Term Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Impella-Supported Left Main PCI With and Without Severe Calcifications: Insights From the National Polish IMPELLA-PL Registry ...

Polygenic background bidirectionally modifies the penetrance of pathogenic variants in hypertrophic (HCM) and dilated (DCM) ...

Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) is a pathologic cardiac condition in which the interventricular septum is abnormally thickened. The classic finding in HOCM is large dagger-like “septal ...

Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) is a pathologic cardiac condition in which the interventricular septum is abnormally thickened. The classic finding in HOCM is large dagger-like “septal ...

"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by physicians, meant for the medical team as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this journey through a disease state contains ...

Ventricular septal defect is an abnormal hole in the septum that separates the two bottom chambers of the heart called ventricles. Like Atrial septal defect (ASD), there are no evident reasons to say ...

The septum of the heart is a wall of tissue that separates the left and right sides of the heart and enables blood to flow as it should. It consists of the atrial septum and the ventricular septum.