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 ...

Luna traveled over 2,600 miles to let the Auburn tigers operate on her heart. Last month the three-month-old Chihuahua came from Seattle to Auburn University's College of Veterinary Medicine to ...

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 ...

Therapy The ultimate goal of treating PDA is to close the defect. This may require surgery as well as medication and catheterization. In many cases, a small PDA closes on its own without medical ...

The Uganda Heart Institute (UHI) has successfully performed five closed-heart surgeries - free of charge — to correct Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA), a congenital heart defect. Every year, UHI ...

Narayana Health City has performed a PDA (Patent Ductus Arteriosus) stenting surgery on conjoined twins with a shared heart. The hospital has said that it is the region's maiden thoracopagus surgery.

Pediatric experts from Le Bonheur’s Heart Institute and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center will present lectures, posters, abstracts and hands-on workshops. Pediatric experts from Le ...

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 ...

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 ...