Ventricular septal defect is a hole in the wall between the right and left ventricles of the heart. This abnormality usually develops before birth and is found most often in infants. The ventricles ...

No parent wants to find out that their child has a heart condition, but fortunately, children with ventricle defects can be helped with many different types of research-backed treatments and ...

Engineers are proposing a new surgical intervention for children born with a single ventricle in their heart -- instead of the usual two. The new approach would potentially reduce the number of ...

An injectable hydrogel can mitigate damage to the right ventricle of the heart with chronic pressure overload, according to a new study. In 2019, this same hydrogel was shown to be safe in humans ...

The heart is a complex organ with a simple purpose – pump blood in and pump it out again. It does this through an interconnected network of rectangular heart cells called cardiomyocytes that pump ...

Ventricular arrhythmia occurs when the heart’s lower chambers beat out of sync, which can prevent the heart from effectively pumping blood throughout the body. Diagnosis of ventricular arrhythmia ...

Your heart is divided into a left and a right side. The right side of your heart pumps blood to your lungs to receive oxygen. The left side pumps the oxygenated blood to the rest of your body. Right ...

All cases of fetal CCH diagnosed by fetal echocardiogram from May 2003–May 2011 were identified at a single referral center using an established perinatal database. Demographic and genetic information ...

Harvard University researchers have bioengineered a three-dimensional model of a human left heart ventricle that could be used to study diseases, test drugs and develop patient-specific treatments for ...