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Persistent Fetal Circulation Syndrome

"Persistent Fetal Circulation Syndrome" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A syndrome of persistent PULMONARY HYPERTENSION in the newborn infant (INFANT, NEWBORN) without demonstrable HEART DISEASES. This neonatal condition can be caused by severe pulmonary vasoconstriction (reactive type), hypertrophy of pulmonary arterial muscle (hypertrophic type), or abnormally developed pulmonary arterioles (hypoplastic type). The newborn patient exhibits CYANOSIS and ACIDOSIS due to the persistence of fetal circulatory pattern of right-to-left shunting of blood through a patent ductus arteriosus (DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS, PATENT) and at times a patent foramen ovale (FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT).


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Persistent Fetal Circulation Syndrome" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Persistent Fetal Circulation Syndrome" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 8 publications over 8 distinct years, with a maximum of 1 publications in 2000 and 2006 and 2010 and 2013 and 2018 and 2019 and 2020 and 2022
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