Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Compared with surgical ligation, transcatheter closure of the patent ductus arteriosus in infants and neonates ...

Philadelphia, PA - Using a strategy that takes the classic "house-call" to new extremes, a traveling medical team made up of cardiothoracic surgeons, anesthesiologists, and nurses is bringing a ...

Background: It is well recognised that presence of a haemodynamically significant PDA increases the risks of bronchopulmonary dysplasia(BPD), intraventricular haemorrhage(IVH) and necrotising ...

From the Laboratory of Surgical Research, Harvard Medical School, and the Department of Surgery, Children's Hospital, Boston. Select the format you want to export the citation of this publication.

Active treatment of hemodynamically significant patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) in preterm infants within the first 2 weeks of life was associated with worse outcomes than expectant management.

Once a PDA is suspected or confirmed, the 2 main questions are (1) how to treat and (2) when to treat a particular infant This clinical controversy recently was the subject of an excellent systematic ...

A persistent left-to-right shunt through a patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) increases the rate of hydrostatic fluid filtration into the lung's interstitium (1), impairs pulmonary mechanics (2–7), ...