Ventricular Septal Defect: Types, Hemodynamic Changes, Diagnosis and Treatment Options

After reading this chapter, one would become familiar with Ventricular Septal Defect, which is discussed in detail. Both Congenital and Acquired Ventricular Septal defects are analyzed. The types of VSD and the causative factors are enumerated. How to assess the severity of the defects, how to locate them through the different views in Echocardiogram, how to measure the hemodynamic changes caused by the VSD, how to identify the complications and what are the treatment options are described in this chapter. Also presented in this chapter are the signs and symptoms of the defect, the frequency of occurrence of the defect and what associated defects can accompany a VSD. Explanatory schematic labelled diagrams aid in understanding the concepts of this topic easily.