The impression that has been gathered from a perusal of the available literature is that a patent ductus arteriosus as a sole abnormality is comparatively rare. In Abbott's' coliected series of 850 cases there were but 73, and in Laubry and Pezzi's2 well-known work the lesion is said to be rare. Recently Perry3 in a review of congenital heart lesions in Bristol school children found, amongst 12...

The impression that has been gathered from a perusal of the available literature is that a patent ductus arteriosus as a sole abnormality is comparatively rare. In Abbott's' coliected series of 850 cases there were but 73, and in Laubry and Pezzi's2 well-known work the lesion is said to be rare. Recently Perry3 in a review of congenital heart lesions in Bristol school children found, amongst 12...

Background: Standard medical treatments for patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) closure are, including indomethacin/ibuprofen and surgical ligation. Nowadays, a new strategy to close PDA is the use of paracetamol. The present study aimed to describe the use of intravenous (IV) paracetamol for PDA closure in neonates who present a contraindication to ibuprofen or ibuprofen failure with no possibility...

Isolated absence of the ductus arteriosus is extremely rare condition although the ductus arteriosus may be hypoplastic or aplastic in association with other aortic arch anomalies. Authors described a case of isolated agenesis of the ductus arteriosus documented by postmortem examination of a newborn infant who died of pneumonia following operation for a large omphalocele. The heart showed vent...

Primary hyperoxaluria is a rare hereditary metabolic disorder resulting in accumulation of calcium oxalate in visceral organs, including the heart. We report a 19-year-old male with non- compaction cardiomyopathy combined with patent ductus arteriosus awaiting combined liver-kidney transplantation for primary hyperoxaluria. After surgical closure of the patent ductus arteriosus, the patient und...

Real-time cross-sectional echocardiographic studies of the main coronary arteries were performed in 20 normal subjects, 12 patients with patent ductus arteriosus and 14 patients with coronary artery fistula in whom the diagnosis was established by angiography. In 12 patients, the coronary artery that formed the fistula was dilated: The right coronary artery was involved in eight and the left co...

PURPOSE Here, we report two cases of early-onset post-nephrectomy renal arteriovenous fistula who were successfully managed by implantation of patent ductus arteriosus occluders. CASE REPORT Both patients were female, aged 38 and 36 years. They received left renal nephrectomy 9 and 6 months, respectively, with a complaint of chest congestion and dyspnea before admitting to our center. Compute...

The association of a right aortic arch with an ipsilateral patent ductus arteriosus is rare, especially when there are no other intracardiac anomalies. We report three female patients aged 26, 35 and 9 years with this combination in whom previous attempts at surgical closure by thoracotomy and sternotomy were unsuccessful and who subsequently underwent successful percutaneous closure of the def...

Six infants underwent angiography of the aortic root and the descending aorta with balloon inflation during diagnostic cardiac catheterisation and angiography. In these infants with large proximal left to right shunts, descending aortography with balloon inflation resulted in better opacification of the persistent ductus arteriosus than aortic root angiography, thereby enabling accurate measure...

Expression of epithelial cytokeratins type 8, 18 and 19 can be used to study smooth muscle cell differentiation during development. We studied the differentiation of smooth muscle cells in the ductus arteriosus before and during intimal thickening and compared the changes occurring in this vessel with the adjoining elastic ascending and descending aorta and the pulmonary trunk. The ductus arter...