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... > Cardiovascular Diseases > Heart Diseases > Heart Defects, Congenital > Heart Septal Defects > Heart Septal Defects, Atrial > Foramen Ovale, Patent
... > Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities > Congenital Abnormalities > Cardiovascular Abnormalities > Heart Defects, Congenital > Heart Septal Defects > Heart Septal Defects, Atrial > Foramen Ovale, Patent
... > Cardiovascular Diseases > Cardiovascular Abnormalities > Heart Defects, Congenital > Heart Septal Defects > Heart Septal Defects, Atrial > Foramen Ovale, Patent

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Foramen Ovale, Patent  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Oval Foramen, Patent
  • Patent Foramen Ovale
  • Patent Oval Foramen

Scope note

  • A condition in which the FORAMEN OVALE in the ATRIAL SEPTUM fails to close shortly after birth. This results in abnormal communications between the two upper chambers of the heart. An isolated patent ovale foramen without other structural heart defects is usually of no hemodynamic significance.

History note

  • 2008; use HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL 1980-2007

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D054092

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