Ventricular septal defects are the most common cause of congenital heart disease. They close spontaneously in around 50% of cases. Non-congenital causes include post myocardial infarction. Atrial fibrillation is associated more with atrial septal defects.
Features
Features
- classically a pan-systolic murmur which is louder in smaller defects Complications
- aortic regurgitation*
- infective endocarditis
- Eisenmenger's complex
- right heart failure
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