- Acyanotic heart defect
----The Congenital Heart defect, which comprises approximately 75% of all of these congenital heart defects "
acyanotic heart defects ". This contains anyheart defect of a group of structural effects. It can be subdivided into two groups depending on whether there is shunting of the blood from the left vasculature to the right (left to right shunt) or no shunting at all.Left to right shunting heart defects include
ventricular septal defect or VSD (30% of all congenital heart defects), persistent ductus arteriosus or PDA,atrial septal defect or ASD, andatrioventricular septal defect or AVSD.Acyanotic heart defects without shunting include
pulmonary stenosis , a narrowing of thepulmonary valve ,aortic stenosis andcoarctation of the aorta .ee also
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Cyanotic heart defect
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