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Heart Septal Defects

"Heart Septal Defects" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Abnormalities in any part of the HEART SEPTUM resulting in abnormal communication between the left and the right chambers of the heart. The abnormal blood flow inside the heart may be caused by defects in the ATRIAL SEPTUM, the VENTRICULAR SEPTUM, or both.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Heart Septal Defects" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Heart Septal Defects" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 60 publications over 26 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2017 and 2018 and 2020 and 2023
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.