| The pulmonary valve is located on the right side of the heart between the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery.<ref name="pmid19271591">{{cite journal| author=McIntyre A| title=Career opportunities in the smaller medical specialties. | journal=Clin Med (Lond) | year= 2009 | volume= 9 | issue= 1 | pages= 10-1 | pmid=19271591 | doi= | pmc=5922622 | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=19271591 }} </ref> In a normally functioning heart, the opening to the pulmonary valve has three flaps that open and close like one-way doors. As these flaps open and close they force blood to flow forward into the pulmonary artery and backward into the right ventricle then forward again to the lungs where the blood becomes oxygenated. With the disease pulmonary atresia, the flap-like openings are completely covered by a layer of tissue, thus preventing the ability of blood flow to the lungs to become oxygenated. The body requires oxygenated blood for survival.<ref name="pmid17519398">{{cite journal| author=Pierpont ME, Basson CT, Benson DW, Gelb BD, Giglia TM, Goldmuntz E | display-authors=etal| title=Genetic basis for congenital heart defects: current knowledge: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association Congenital Cardiac Defects Committee, Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young: endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics. | journal=Circulation | year= 2007 | volume= 115 | issue= 23 | pages= 3015-38 | pmid=17519398 | doi=10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.183056 | pmc= | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=17519398 }} </ref>. Pulmonary atresia is not threatening to a developing fetus however, because the mother's placenta provides the needed oxygen since the baby's lungs are not yet functional. 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