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Descriptor English:   Foramen Ovale, Patent 
Descriptor Spanish:   Foramen Oval Permeable 
Descriptor Portuguese:   Forame Oval Patente 
Synonyms English:   Patent Foramen Ovale  
Tree Number:   C14.240.400.560.375.258
C14.280.400.560.375.258
C16.131.240.400.560.375.258
Definition English:   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 English:   2008; use HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL 1980-2007 
Allowable Qualifiers English:  
blood cerebrospinal fluid
chemically induced classification
complications diet therapy
diagnosis drug therapy
economics ethnology
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epidemiology etiology
genetics history
immunology metabolism
microbiology mortality
nursing pathology
prevention & control physiopathology
parasitology psychology
radiography rehabilitation
radionuclide imaging radiotherapy
surgery therapy
ultrastructure urine
ultrasonography veterinary
virology  
Record Number:   52605 
Unique Identifier:   D054092 

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