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Patent foramen ovale

Alternative names:

PFO

Symptoms:

Infants with a patent foramen ovale and no other heart defects do not have symptoms.

Signs and tests:

A heart murmur may be present if a right-to-left shunt (unoxygenated blood flows from the right side of the heart directly into the left side of the heart without going past the lungs) or other heart abnormalities exist. Cyanosis (bluish skin color) is also present with right-to-left shunts.


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