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Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular

"Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular" 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.

Developmental abnormalities in any portion of the VENTRICULAR SEPTUM resulting in abnormal communications between the two lower chambers of the heart. Classification of ventricular septal defects is based on location of the communication, such as perimembranous, inlet, outlet (infundibular), central muscular, marginal muscular, or apical muscular defect.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 159 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 9 publications in 2010
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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.