Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is the most common cardiac condition in infants born before term, with the incidence of PDA inversely related to gestational age. 1 Although PDAs may become evident ...

Mapel, who was born with a rare heart defect called a Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA) (when a vessel on the heart, connecting ...

These procedures, known as Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA) repairs, involve closing a hole in the heart, a condition that can lead to serious complications or death if untreated. For these families ...

Heart diseases are usually worried about in adulthood however there are some risk factors which begin developing in early ...

AIMS To identify the patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) shunt flow pattern using Doppler echocardiography; and to assess whether it could be used to predict the development of clinically significant PDA.

PDA = patent ductus arteriosus. Overall, the analysis of the comprehensive system, supported cardiac morphology as a stand-alone predictor of severity, with negligible additional variation attributed ...

a patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) and 7 (2%) were in the miscellaneous group (including coarctation of the aorta, pulmonary valve stenosis and vascular ring). The distribution of these diagnoses over ...

As a result, the DA is more likely to remain patent and the resulting shunt may have important hemodynamic consequences. [4] Doppler echocardiography has given us a window to evaluate the real ...

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The following is a summary of "Cardiopulmonary Physiology of Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure among Preterm Infants with Septic Shock," published in the November 2024 issue of Pediatrics by Kharrat et al ...