Pharmacological and/or surgical closure of a hemodynamically significant patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) in the very preterm infant has been the standard of care over the past few decades. However, the ...

Credit: Getty Images. Evidence suggests that patent ductus arteriosus comprises anywhere from 5% to 10% of all congenital heart disease. Although the majority of congenital heart diseases (CHD) are ...

It might be best to do nothing at all to treat a common heart defect among premature newborns. Twice as many preemies treated ...

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY—contrast visualization of the heart and great vessels — was first made a practical procedure by Robb and Steinberg 1 in 1938. In subsequent reports these authors have described in ...

Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is a congenital cardiac defect that occurs when the ductus arteriosus fails to close. The result is a persistent communication between the aorta and pulmonary artery, ...

Patent Ductus arteriosus is the second commonest congenital birth defect of the heart and can cause heart failure; however majority of these defect close spontaneously after birth. Patent Ductus ...

SHOULD closure of a patent ductus arteriosus with reversal of flow be attempted? If so, how can the high surgical mortality hitherto reported 1–3 be reduced? An attempt is made to answer these ...

Abbott Laboratories recently received U.S. FDA clearance and CE Mark for its Amplatzer Piccolo Delivery System, enabling more ...

Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), one of the more common cardiac defects present at birth, is the persistence of an opening between the pulmonary artery and aorta. This opening is as a result of failure ...

Sometimes, a baby's heart doesn't grow the way it should in the womb. This can cause a rare defect called truncus arteriosus. Normally, when the heart pumps, the right side takes in blood from the ...

Truncus arteriosus is a developmental defect of the heart where there is only a single artery in the heart that carries blood both to the lungs and the rest of the body instead of two separate vessels ...