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So this is an animation of the heart and
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you can see now as they cut into the
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heart this wire is coming up from the
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right side and opening the flap of the
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PFO and it shows nicely the nature of a
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PFO being this flap that can be pushed
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open and then the device is now opened
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in the left brought down to the septum
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and another identical disc is brought up
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on the right side. The two are locked
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together by this nitonol memory metal
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loop and then that clamps close the PFO
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and now they're animating some pink
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cells growing over the device and that's
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the process of what we call
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endothelialization or healing up of the
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septum and the cells are using the
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device as a scaffold over which to grow
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across which is what should have
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happened in uh when when the person was
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a baby to close off the PFO.
