What are the symptoms of patent foramen ovale?

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All of us hope that our children will be healthy after birth, but things always fail. Some children are not healthy after birth. There is a colleague in our office. The children are three years old, but now they weigh only 20 jin. We went to the hospital for a detailed examination. The doctor said that the child had a disease like patent foramen ovale, What are the symptoms of patent foramen ovale? Now let me tell you something.

What are the symptoms of patent foramen ovale?

Lip blackening is a typical symptom of patent foramen ovale. We can also make the initial judgment through these common sense. Patent foramen ovale is a congenital heart disease, which easily leads to insufficient blood pump of the heart, so it leads to lip blackening. If the central atrial septal defect is large, larger than 8-10 mm, with large shunt, it is called central atrial septal defect and needs surgical repair.

The problem of patent foramen ovale may also lead to air embolism caused by diving disease or decompression sickness; The risk of recurrence of fat emboli after surgery or trauma is still high for patients with patent foramen ovale who have had thrombosis.

In recent years, many studies have shown that the occurrence of patent foramen ovale disease is closely related to patients with unexplained stroke. This is because through the patent foramen ovale, after the occurrence of this disease, patients will have lower extremity deep vein or pelvic vein thrombosis.

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The foramen ovale of the baby's heart is likely to remain open within one year old, there may be a small amount of shunt, and even 5% - 10% of people's foramen ovale remain open and not closed for life, but it has no effect on the hemodynamics of the heart. Patent foramen ovale in infancy is a normal physiological phenomenon. If it is not congenital heart disease, it generally does not need surgery.