A ventricular shunt is a surgically implanted thin, plastic tube that drains extra fluid and relieves pressure on the brain. Children receive ventricular shunts for hydrocephalus, a condition ...

Supracristal VSDs occur just beneath the aortic valve at the left ventricular outflow tract. A Venturi effect can occur from the left to right shunt causing the aortic valve leaflet to prolapse ...

However, as children grow, the shunt is often replaced to accommodate ... This technology could be useful beyond single-ventricle heart disorders, according to Rodell. Surgeons could, for example ...

Inter-atrial shunt device therapy has shown mixed results in clinical trials, with clinical 'non-responders' typically showing features of more advanced heart failure. We aimed to analyse the ...

Both of these are confounded when there is an atrial shunt, hence limiting the use of relative ventricular output as a measure of PDA significance. This shows the measurement of the color Doppler ...