Patent ductus arteriosus in infants?

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Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is one of the common congenital heart diseases, which mostly occurs in women. Moreover, PDA does great harm to the baby's body and mind. PDA will bring great pain to the baby and the whole family. Parents often can't judge the condition of the baby, Therefore, children in the discovery of related diseases must be timely to the hospital for treatment, so as not to delay the treatment opportunity. Parents should also understand the specific matters of patent ductus arteriosus. Patent ductus arteriosus in infants? Let's talk about it.

Patent ductus arteriosus in infants?

Mild patent ductus arteriosus is asymptomatic. At this time, for children, there is little change in intelligence. But if it is severe patent ductus arteriosus, there will be hypoxia, and once the brain has a regular hypoxia, it is easy to affect the infant's intellectual development.

Severe patients with patent ductus arteriosus in infancy may have pneumonia, heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, obstructive pulmonary vascular disease, and even blood flow from the pulmonary artery into the aorta. If the patent ductus arteriosus is complicated and accompanied by other congenital cardiovascular malformations, the patent ductus arteriosus can compensate.

Anatomic closure occurs within 6 months after birth, and a few of them can be delayed to one year. If the patient is over one year old and still not closed, and has pathological changes, it can be judged as the disease. The time of patent ductus arteriosus self closing is not more than one year old. If the infant still does not self close after one year old, surgical treatment of patent ductus arteriosus should be performed.

matters needing attention

Indomethacin can be used to treat premature infants with patent ductus arteriosus complicated with respiratory distress syndrome and severe congestive heart failure, resulting in closure of ductus arteriosus, thus relieving symptoms and eliminating surgical ligation.