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SUBMITTER: Stoller JZ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3601484 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of clinical & experimental cardiology 20120601 1
The ductus arteriosus (DA) shunts blood away from the lungs during fetal life, but at birth this shunt is no longer needed and the vessel rapidly constricts. Postnatal persistence of the DA, patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), is predominantly a detrimental condition for preterm infants but is simultaneously a condition required to maintain systemic blood flow for infants born with certain severe congenital heart defects. Although PDA in preterm infants is associated with significant morbidities, th ...[more]