Alberto Cresti, Stefania Sparla, Stefania Stefanelli, Andrea Picchi*, Ugo Limbruno
Congenital Heart Disease, Vol.18, No.1, pp. 1-6, 2023, DOI:10.32604/chd.2023.025639
Abstract Background: Ventricular crypts are quite a common finding during cardiac imaging, but their etiology is unclear. A possible final result of a spontaneous ventricular septal defect closure has been supposed but never investigated in earlier studies. Method: From January 1997 to December 2020, all newborns diagnosed to have a ventricular septal defect were prospectively entered in our database and those with an isolated defect were included in the study. Ventricular septal defects were classified into four types: perimembranous, trabecular muscular, inlet and outlet. A long-term follow up was performed in order to visualize the possible residual formation of a septal… More >
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