Here is a tricky case. Try to guess the diagnosis of this previously healthy 5-year-old boy who starts to complain of difficulty breathing over the past 2 weeks. He used to be able to play with his ...

What is another name for a small ventricular septal defect? A small ventricular septal defect is termed “maladie de Roger” or Rogers’s disease after the initial describer in 1879 Henri Louis Roger, a ...

SINCE the advent of open-heart surgery ventricular septal defects have become a surgically correctable anomaly. Surgeons, in their understandable enthusiasm, have recommended early repair of these ...