What is the Condition of Pulmonary Atresia? Pulmonary atresia is a congenital heart defect where the baby is born with a defective or absent pulmonary valve. The valve should have three leaflets which ...

The term ‘pulmonary’ refers to the lungs and ‘atresia’ means missing, so pulmonary atresia is a congenital heart defect in which the pulmonary valve of the infant is missing. The pulmonary valve ...

Nothing prepares an expectant parent for bad news. But that experience became part of a national discussion recently, with news that Jimmy Kimmel’s son was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect ...

This communication reports 4 cases of pulmonary-valve atresia with intact ventricular septum and hypoplastic right ventricle in which angiography demonstrated large diverticula and sinusoids that ...

Zayne McCall was blue when he was born. Before his mother could hold him, doctors rushed him away to run tests. Science X Daily and the Weekly Email Newsletter are free features that allow you to ...

Wrexham co-owner Ryan Reynolds backed the campaign to help Ollie, who was born with a rare and complex condition known as ...

Autologous pericardium has been used for angioplasty in pediatric cardiovascular surgery with good results, except in the case of the pulmonary valve. 1 However, we know of no report on the histology ...