MONDAY, Dec. 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Doing nothing at all to manage a common fetal heart defect might improve the ...

Accurate diagnosis of a PDA requires echocardiography. Echocardiography together with Doppler and color Doppler allows assessment of patency, diameter of the DA (using color Doppler), and direction of ...

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 use of serial echocardiography has dramatically enhanced the understanding of the natural history of the PDA, and it is clear that, in most situations, the diameter or degree of constriction of ...