Conservative management of patent ductus arteriosus in preterm infants
- 1 March 1979
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Intensive Care Medicine
- Vol. 5 (1), 33-36
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01739000
Abstract
We report our experience of medical treatment, chiefly based on prolonged artificial ventilation, of 33 preterm infants with PDA and heart failure whose survival rate was 88%. All of them had clinical criteria used by others to indicate surgical ligation of the ductus arteriosus. This conservative approach seems to give better results than surgical ligation, despite a high frequency of bronchopulmonary dysplasia among survivors.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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