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What fetal heart structure becomes the ligamentum arteriosum in the adult heart?

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The ductus arteriosus responds to these changes by closing and becoming the ligamentum arteriosum. This prevents oxygenated blood from returning to the pulmonary circulation and after passing through the lungs and into the aorta.

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