Thus, the pulmonary circulation system cannot deal with all the blood. So there are two shunts that provide shortcuts for most of the pulmonary circulation system which were already named above: the foramen ovale and the ductus arteriosus. With the first breath there is a decrease in the resistance in the pulmonary vasculature and an increase of the amount of blood.
These changes cause the pressure in the left atrium to increase relative to the pressure in the right atrium which will press septum primum against septum secundum leading to the closure of the foramen ovale.
With the lungs already developed there is an increased concentration of oxygen in the blood that leads to a decrease in prostaglandins, causing muscular contractions of ductus arteriosus wall, as well as ductus venosus and umbilicar arteries, mediated by bradykinin, a powerful vasodilator released from lungs, and it causes its closure.
Ductus arteriosus closes immediately after birth, followed by closure of umbilical arteries and ductus venosus. WikiLectures WikiLectures.
Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Log in. Thank you for your comments. The fetal circulatory system uses two right to left shunts, which are small passages that direct blood that needs to be oxygenated. The purpose of these shunts is to bypass certain body parts? The shunts that bypass the lungs are called the foramen ovale, which moves blood from the right atrium of the heart to the left atrium, and the ductus arteriosus, which moves blood from the pulmonary artery to the aorta.
Oxygen and nutrients from the mother's blood are transferred across the placenta to the fetus. The enriched blood flows through the umbilical cord to the liver and splits into three branches.
The blood then reaches the inferior vena cava, a major vein connected to the heart. Most of this blood is sent through the ductus venosus, also a shunt that passes highly oxygenated blood through the liver to the inferior vena cava and then to the right atrium of the heart.
A small amount of this blood goes directly to the liver to give it the oxygen and nutrients it needs. Waste products from the fetal blood are transferred back across the placenta to the mother's blood. Blood enters the right atrium, the chamber on the upper right side of the heart. Written by American Heart Association editorial staff and reviewed by science and medicine advisers. See our editorial policies and staff. Congenital Heart Defects.
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