Table 3.
Location of ventricular septal defect among the included studies.
| Study | N |
Subaortic
VSD |
Prevalence ( 95% CI) |
Subpulmonary
VSD |
Prevalence
(95% CI) |
Doubly Committed VSD | Prevalence ( 95% CI) |
| Bharati | 45 | 32 | 71 (56–84) | 8 | 18 (8–32) | 4 | 9 (2–21) |
| Brandt | 5 | 5 | 100 (48–100) | - | - | - | - |
| De Leon | 2 | 2 | 100 (15–100) | - | - | - | - |
| Luciani | 22 | 15 | 68 (45–86) | 3 | 14 (3–35) | - | - |
| Subirana | 2 | 2 | 100 (15–100) | - | - | - | - |
| Ootaki | 2 | 2 | 100 (15–100) | - | - | - | - |
| Raja | 4 | 4 | 100 (40–100) | - | - | - | - |
| Van Praagh | 109 | 82 | 75 (66–83) | 16 | 15 (9–23) | 7 | 6 (3–13) |
| McElhinney | 3 | 3 | 100 (29–100) | - | - | - | - |
| Villani | 2 | 1 | 50 (1–99) | 1 | 50 (1–99) | - | - |
| Stegmann | 2 | 1 | 50 (1–99) | 1 | 50 (1–99) | - | - |
| Pooled | 198 | 149 | 75 (68–81) | 29 | 15 (10–21) | 13 | 7 (4–12) |