Background Patent ductus arteriosus is an open channel between the aorta and pulmonary artery. The study aimed to evaluate the clinical course of patent ductus arteriosus after discharge and comparing in therapies technique. Materials and Methods This cross-sectional and inferential- descriptive study was performed in the hospitals of city of Zahedan-Iran in the period of one decade from 2005 ...

W HEN there is a right-sided aortic arch, persistence of a left-sided ductus arteriosus can readily be demonstrated by angiocardiography. This is important because in some types of eyanotic congenital heart disease, such as in the tetralogy of Fallot, anl artificial aortico-pulmonary (Blalock-Taussig' or Pott S2 shunt) is often created in order to alleviate the distress produced by anoxia. Two ...

the majority of coronary artery fistulas (cafs) are congenital. the anomaly accounts for 0.4% of congenital heart defects and approximately 50% of pediatric coronary vasculature anomalies. twenty percent of people with congenital cafs have other concomitant cardiac anomalies, most frequently aortic and pulmonary atresia and patent ductus arteriosus. it is worthy of note that caf with the tetral...

background: t ranscatheter closure of patent ductus arteriosus (pda) has become an alternative treatment to surgery. we evaluated the long-term results of the transcatheter closure of pda with the amplatzer duct occluder (ado) in children. methods: between may 2004 and october 2012, 138 children with pda (43 males and 95 females) underwent transcatheter pda closure. clinical, electrocardiograph...