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If a child was born with a small hole in the muscular wall between the right and left side of the heart. Why must this problem be fixed by surgery as soon as possible?

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This hole allows oxygen-rich blood from the left atrium to flow into the right atrium instead of flowing into the left ventricle as it should. This means that oxygen-rich blood gets pumped back to the lungs, where it has just been, instead of going to the body

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