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13 Cards in this Set
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How is circulation different in the fetus compared to adult?
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-Blood is shunted around liver
-Blood shunts from R/L in heart |
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What vessel carries O2Rich blood to the fetus?
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Umbilical vein
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What shunts blood around the liver? What does it carry it to?
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Ductus venosus - to IVC
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What shunts the blood from R/L atrium?
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Foramen ovale
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What blood goes through Foramen ovale?
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That from IVC
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Where does blood from SVC go?
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Through the Ductus Arteriosus
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What does the Ductus arteriosus connect?
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The pulmonary trunk and Aorta
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What takes deoxygenated blood back to the placenta?
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Umbilical arteries
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What does the Ductus venosus become at birth?
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Ligamentum venosum
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What does foramen ovale become?
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Fossa ovalis
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What does the Ductus Arteriosus become?
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Ligamentum arteriosum
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What major changes occur in fetal circulation at birth?
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-Shunts close
-Pulmonar circulation starts -Pressure on Left > Right -Umbilical vessels obliterate |
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What is obliterated umbilical
-Vein -Artery |
Vein = ligamentum Teres
Artery = Medial umbilical ligaments |
