Babies born prematurely can have a number of complications at birth, simply because they are brought into the world before their organs are fully developed. One complication is called patent ductus ...

The causes of many sporadic diseases are unexplained; the contribution of recessive loci with reduced penetrance is one possibility that has been difficult to explore. We describe an approach to this ...

About The Study: In extremely preterm infants with a protocol-defined patent ductus arteriosus, death or bronchopulmonary dysplasia did not differ between the expectant management group and the active ...

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.

“This position statement represents a collective effort between neonatology, anesthesia, and interventional cardiology to provide comprehensive guidance on tcPDA device occlusion that can be adapted ...

After birth, the pulmonary arterioles dilate and the right heart pressures drop. The left heart pressures increase as the low resistance placenta is replaced by the high-resistance systemic ...

Merit Medical Systems initiates a study to evaluate the Bloom Micro Occluder System for treating patent ductus arteriosus in premature infants. Merit Medical Systems, Inc. has announced the enrollment ...

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 ...