ESME Atkinson was just one month old when she died due to a “hole in her heart” – which was only discovered during a ...

A ventricular septal defect (VSD) occurs when there is direct communication between the left and right ventricles. This can be a congenital anomaly or acquired as a complication of a myocardial ...

The Voice presenter Emma Willis, 49, has had keyhole surgery after "48 years" not knowing she had a hole in her heart. The ...

A small ventricular septal defect is termed “maladie de Roger” or Rogers’s disease after the initial describer in 1879 Henri Louis Roger, a pediatric cardiologist known as an expert in ...

Heart defect repair is surgery to fix a heart problem that prevents blood from flowing as it should through the heart. The doctor will make a large cut in your chest. The cut is called an incision. It ...