In full-term infants, patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) usually is first suspected when the baby's doctor hears a heart murmur during a regular checkup. A heart murmur is an extra or unusual sound heard ...

Patent ductus arteriosus refers to a heart problem that affects babies soon after they are born. In this medical condition, there is an abnormal flow of blood between the two of the major arteries ...

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY—contrast visualization of the heart and great vessels — was first made a practical procedure by Robb and Steinberg 1 in 1938. In subsequent reports these authors have described in ...

The two most common causes of a continuous murmur are a patent ductus arteriosus and severe aortic valve regurgitation. A patent ductus arteriosus causes a continuous murmur since there is a constant ...

A heart murmur is a sound made by turbulent blood flow within the heart. Your doctor hears this sound with a stethoscope. A murmur can occur in a normal heart. Or it may indicate some problem within ...

This paper presents serial cardiac-catheterization data showing spontaneous functional closure of large symptomatic defects in 3 infants. One had an associated moderate-sized patent ductus arteriosus ...

Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA) is usually discovered early in life. Sometimes, a very small PDA may go unnoticed. They may be discovered during a routine doctor’s examination. An infant or an adult ...

Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is a congenital cardiac defect that occurs when the ductus arteriosus fails to close. The result is a persistent communication between the aorta and pulmonary artery, ...

Patent Ductus arteriosus is the second commonest congenital birth defect of the heart and can cause heart failure; however majority of these defect close spontaneously after birth. Patent Ductus ...