Ventricular Septal Defect
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Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD)
Two common locations for a ventricular septal defect. The defect allows oxygen-rich blood from the left ventricle to mix with oxygen-poor blood in the right ventricle.
VSD is a hole in the part of the septum that separates the ventricles—the lower chambers of the heart. The hole allows oxygen rich blood to flow from the left ventricle into the right ventricle instead of flowing into the aorta and out to the body as it should.
Source: National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Health. www. nhlbi.nih.gov
Pulmonary artery
(to lungs)
Aorta
(to body)
Right Atrium
Left Atrium
Left
Ventricle
Right
Septal Defect
(holes in the heart)
Mixing blood from left (oxygenated) and right (deoxygenated) ventricular
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