Ostium-Secundum Defect The 19 patients with this lesion ranged in age from twenty-three to fifty-seven, with an average age of thirty-eight years. All but 3 were women. Evidence of heart disease had ...

Atrial septal defects (ASDs) are the second most common type of congenital heart disease. The most frequent variant of ASD, the ostium secundum (OS) type, results from deficiency of the flap valve of ...

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Ostium secundum atrial septal defect (OSASD) occurs as an isolated defect in 10% of individuals with congenital heart disease (CHD). In small nuclear-family studies (parents and siblings), OSASD is ...