An atrioventricular canal is a congenital heart defect that connects chambers of your child’s heart that shouldn’t be connected. Atrioventricular canals usually require surgical treatment. It usually ...

NEW BEDFORD — A little boy with a huge heart for helping others is in need of a new one for himself. Five-year-old JJ Montalban dreams of becoming a police officer, but first, he must address his own ...

Texas Children's Hospital doctors and nurses born with heart defects are now treating kids enduring the same challenges.

Incomplete development of the endocardial cushion and the atrioventricular septum is responsible for the development of AV canal defects. These defects range from primum atrial septum defects to ...

An atrioventricular septal defect (AVSD) is a condition in which there is a hole between the chambers of the left and right sides of the heart. Additionally, the valves between the chambers may not ...

Bo and Taylor Haynie had been high school sweethearts, together for 17 years. They waited 5 years into their marriage to have children only to suffer a devastating miscarriage. So when they found out ...

The letter “Atrioventricular canal defect in Bardet-Biedl syndrome: Clinical evidence supporting the link between atrioventricular canal defect and polydactyly syndromes with ciliary dysfunction” 1 ...