Interventricular septum

Interventricular septum
Section of the heart showing the ventricular septum.
Interior of dorsal half of heart of human embryo of about thirty-five days. (Labeled as 'septum inferius')
Details
Artery	anterior interventricular branch of left coronary artery and Posterior interventricular artery
Identifiers
Latin	s. interventriculare cordis
MeSH	A07.541.459
Dorlands /Elsevier	s_08/12730379
TA	A12.1.00.013
FMA	7133
Anatomical terminology

The interventricular septum (IVS, or ventricular septum, or during development septum inferius), is the stout wall separating the lower chambers (the ventricles) of the heart from one another.

The ventricular septum is directed obliquely backward to the right, and curved with the convexity toward the right ventricle; its margins correspond with the anterior and posterior longitudinal sulci.

Portions

• The greater portion of it is thick and muscular and constitutes the muscular interventricular septum.
• Its upper and posterior part, which separates the aortic vestibule from the lower part of the right atrium and upper part of the right ventricle, is thin and fibrous, and is termed the membranous ventricular septum (septum membranaceum)..

Development

• The muscular part of the interventricular septum derives from the bulboventricular flange which is developed due to differential growth of primitive ventricle and bulbous cordis. Membranous part has a neural crest origin which connects the upper free margin of the bulboventricular flange and anterior and posterior endocardial cushions of atrio ventricular canal. It also gets attached to lower border of spiral septum or the aortico pulmonary septum.

Disorders

• Acyanotic heart defect
• Ventricular septal defect (VSD), a hole in the interventricular septum

Additional images

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  Heart normal short axis echo

External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to ECHOpedia case 'Ventricular septum defect with right to left shunt'.

• Histology image: 128_06 at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center - "Heart and semilunar valve"