Introduction Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) represents approximately 8% of congenital heart disease cases. Long-standing aorto-pulmonary shunting in PDA can lead to pulmonary hypertension and left ...

This difference becomes clear in pulmonary hypertension, in which only the lungs' blood vessels stiffen progressively, leading ... Researchers Identify Over 2,000 Genetic Signals Linked to Blood ...

Objective: To provide commentary and reviews and brief discussions in controversial or innovative recent advances in neonatal pharmacotherapy. To discuss cutting edge drug delivery systems that ...

Background: Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is a dramatically harmful disease in the neonatal period, in particular common in preterm infants, and our study was to determine related factors of PDA in ...

Figure 3. Timeline of medical history from birth to death in a 8-month-old boy with MSMDS. Abbreviation: PAH = Pulmonary hypertension; IVIG: Intravenous immunoglobulin; NO = Nitric oxide; PSV = ...

Methods Before the occlusion, screening the indicantions for twenty-five elderly patients with PDA by CDE. Using the shunt flow signal of colour Doppler flow imaging (CDFI) to estimate the pulmonary ...

Research suggests there may be a two-way relationship between anemia and high blood pressure (hypertension). People with anemia might be at an increased risk of high blood pressure and vice versa.

Surgical view of the pulmonary dominance common arterial trunk in the Russell classification. It is evident that the PDA continuing into the descending aorta and the small ascending aorta separate ...

Diagnoses were CAVSD in 12 patients, VSD in four, PAVSD in one and PDA in one. Two of these patients had palliation with pulmonary artery banding. None underwent corrective surgery. Ten of these 18 ...