{"id":173808,"date":"2023-10-08T21:23:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T02:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/atrial-septal-defect-and-ventricular-septal-defect-in-children"},"modified":"2023-10-08T21:23:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T02:23:07","slug":"atrial-septal-defect-and-ventricular-septal-defect-in-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/atrial-septal-defect-and-ventricular-septal-defect-in-children","title":{"rendered":"Atrial Septal Defect and Ventricular Septal Defect in Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/atrial-septal-defect-and-ventricular-septal-defect-in-children.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Transcatheter repair<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A transcatheter repair, also called transcatheter device closure, is usually recommended for an atrial septal defect. During this procedure, a pediatric interventional cardiologist makes an incision in the groin, inserts a catheter, and funnels a small mesh patch through the catheter and up to the hole in the heart. Over time, the child\u2019s own heart tissue grows over the patch.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hopkinsmedicine.org\/health\/treatment-tests-and-therapies\/atrial-septal-defect-transcatheter-repair-for-children\">atrial septal defect transcatheter repair for children<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transcatheter repair A transcatheter repair, also called transcatheter device closure, is usually recommended for an atrial septal defect. During this procedure, a pediatric interventional cardiologist makes an incision in the groin, inserts a catheter, and funnels a small mesh patch through the catheter and up to the hole in the heart. Over time, the child\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}