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We report our experience of medical treatment, chiefly based on prolonged artificial ventilation, of 33 preterm infants with PDA and heart failure whose survival rate was 88%. All of them had clinical criteria used by others to indicate surgical ligation of the ductus arteriosus.
This conservative approach seems to give better results than surgical ligation, despite a high frequency of bronchopulmonary dysplasia among survivors.
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Tissier, M.C.L., Benoit, A., Dehan, M. et al. Conservative management of patent ductus arteriosus in preterm infants. Intensive Care Med 5, 33–36 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01739000
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