File:Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD).jpeg

The view from the left ventricle in this specimen shows a ventricular septal defect with exclusively muscular borders opening towards the outlet of the right ventricle, but with postero-caudal deviation of the muscular outlet septum (yellow dots), causing subaortic stenosis.

Reference Diane E Spicer, Hao H Hsu, Jennifer Co-Vu, Robert H Anderson, F Jay Fricker Ventricular septal defect. Orphanet J Rare Dis: 2014, 9;144

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