As a group, atrial septal defects are detected in 1 child per 1500 live births.

These small iatrogenic atrial septal defects usually disappeared within six months.

She had open-heart surgery to repair an atrial septal defect at age 13.

Small atrial septal defects often cause very few problems and may be found much later in life.

Not all patients with atrial septal defects can have this procedure.

With a small to moderate atrial septal defect, a person may live a normal life span without symptoms.

Call your health care provider if symptoms indicating an atrial septal defect develop.

He repaired an atrial septal defect in an 18-year-old woman.

An atrial septal defect is one possible cause of a right bundle branch block.

Doctors discovered the small hole in his heart, a condition called atrial septic defect.