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 ...

Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) with a significant left-right shunt is associated with chronic lung disease (CLD), intraventricular haemorrhage (IVH) and necrotising enterocolitis (NEC). Surgical ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

None of these approaches has shown clear benefits in short- and long-range outcomes.

The ductus arteriosus is a normal vessel in the fetus that connects the pulmonary artery and the aorta. It allows the fetal blood flow to bypass the lungs, which are not used in utero. The ductus ...

A randomized controlled trial evaluates if selective early treatment of patent ductus arteriosus reduces death or bronchopulmonary dysplasia at 36 weeks in extreme preterm babies. Findings from the ...

“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 ...

From the Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, and the Infants' and Children's hospitals, Boston. † Assistant physician, Children's Hospital; instructor in pediatrics, Harvard Medical ...