How to Use septal in a Sentence

septal

adjective

• 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
• 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
• The musician shared that his family has known for the last few months that Indiana would have to have open-heart surgery after she was first diagnosed in February 2014 with a ventricular septal defect (VSD).
  — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 24 June 2026
• Her unborn son, Walker, was diagnosed with ventricular septal defects (VSDs) and atrial septal defects (ASDs) — congenital heart defects that would eventually require surgery.
  — Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 11 May 2026