Ventricular septal defects (VSD, Scheme)

Ventricular septal defects (VSD, Scheme)The ventricular septal defect (VSD) is a congenital malformation of the heart (heart failure), in which the septum between the ventricles (interventricular septum) is not completely closed. The ventricular septal defect is one of the so-called shunts.

Source: Patrick J. Lynch and C. Carl Jaffe, MD