Pulsed wave, continuous wave, and color flow Doppler imaging as well as intravenously administered agitated saline solution can detect intracardiac shunts during transthoracic echocardiography.

Diagnosing a secundum ASD is more often than not incidental because the defect normally causes symptoms late in adult life. Echocardiography ... atrial fibrillation and persistent atrial septal ...

An atrial septal defect is ... one surgery to fix the defect. Heart defect repair is surgery to fix a heart problem that prevents blood from flowing normally through the heart. You can expect the cut ...