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Closures of atrial septal defects ASD and ventricular septal defects VSD are treatments to repair holes in your heart. What are atrial and ventricular septal defects? What are atrial and ventricular septal defect closures? Septal defects are openings in the wall septum of your heart.

Atrial septal defect ASD is a hole defect in the wall septum between the heart's two upper, or collecting, chambers atria. One chamber is known as an atrium. The septum separates the heart's left and right side. A septal defect is sometime called a 'hole' in the heart. It is the third most common heart problem that babies are born with. Many defects in the atrial septum close themselves and cause no problems. Otherwise, they can be closed by keyhole procedure or surgery.

The foramen ovale foh-RAY-mun oh-VAY-lee is a small hole located in the septum, which is the wall between the two upper chambers of the heart atria. Before a baby is born, it does not use its lungs to get blood rich in oxygen. The foramen ovale normally closes as blood pressure rises in the left side of the heart after birth. Once it is closed, the blood flows to the lungs to get oxygen before it enters the left side of the heart and gets pumped to the rest of the body. A patent foramen ovale PFO means the foramen ovale did not close properly at birth, so there is still an opening in the septum.

An atrial septal defect ASD is a hole in the wall septum between the two upper chambers of your heart atria. The condition is present at birth congenital. Small defects might be found by chance and never cause a problem.