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Indiana, 12, recently underwent open-heart surgery after she was diagnosed with a ventricular septal defect just after she was born in 2014.—
Hannah Sacks,
PEOPLE,
13 July 2026 The patient, Greyson Gonzalez, lives on the west coast of Florida but was born in New York, where he was first diagnosed with a ventricular septal defect—essentially, a hole in his heart.—
Lauren Pastrana,
CBS News,
12 June 2026 At four months old, doctors diagnosed him with a large ventricular septal defect (VSD) between the left and right ventricles in his heart, as well as pulmonary hypertension.—
David Oliver,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2026 Before Saffold had surgery at the hospital the next day, his EKG showed a sinus arrhythmia, a delay in the right ventricle, and a possible septal infarction, the lawsuit alleges.—
Pj Green,
Kansas City Star,
14 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for septal