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Single ventricle
Single ventricle describes the condition where wall normally separating the two bottom chambers of the heart is absent, creating one large chamber. This is a serious birth defect in the newborn child, and causes problems with the normal flow of blood through the heart.
Dr. Geoffrey Rutledge reviewed this
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