Maladie de Roger

A small ventricular septal defect is termed “maladie de Roger” or Rogers’s disease after the initial describer in 1879 Henri Louis Roger, a pediatric cardiologist known as an expert in cardiac auscultation.

The term “Bruit de Roger” or Roger’s murmur refers to a loud, holosystolic murmur of a small sized ventricular septal defect which creates quite a loud murmur frequently associated with a thrill.