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Patent ductus arteriosus

Last reviewed: 22 Sep 2025
Last updated: 23 Apr 2025

Summary

Definition

History and exam

Key diagnostic factors

  • presentation in infancy
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Other diagnostic factors

  • tachypnea/shortness of breath (SOB)
  • faltering growth
  • exercise intolerance
  • widened pulse pressure
  • machine-like continuous murmur/Gibson murmur in children born at full-term
  • apnea
  • low diastolic blood pressure (BP)
  • irritability
  • diaphoresis
  • increased respiratory symptoms with upper respiratory infection
  • murmur heard only during systole
  • hyperdynamic precordium
  • systolic thrill
  • third heart sound heard at apex
  • mid-diastolic rumble heard at apex
  • bounding peripheral pulses
  • pulmonary rales
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Risk factors

  • prematurity
  • maternal rubella
  • female sex
  • respiratory distress syndrome (RDS)
  • high altitude
  • family history
  • black race
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Diagnostic investigations

1st investigations to order

  • CXR
  • ECG
  • echocardiogram
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Investigations to consider

  • cardiac catheterization and angiography
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Algoritmo de tratamento

Inicial

premature very low birth weight infants: prophylactic therapy

AGUDA

premature infants (<32 weeks)

term infants and children: small-to-moderate-sized ducts

term infants and children: large ducts and/or symptomatic infants too small for device closure

adults

Colaboradores

Autores

Kenneth M. Coca, MD​

Pediatric Cardiology Fellow

Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital

Saint Petersburg

FL

Declarações

KMC declares that he has no competing interests.

Joyce T. Johnson, MD, MS

Director, Fetal Cardiology

Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital

Saint Petersburg

FL

Declarações

JTJ declares that she has no competing interests.

Agradecimentos

Dr Kenneth M. Coca and Dr Joyce T. Johnson would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Anji T. Yetman and Dr Nelangi M. Pinto, previous contributors to this topic.

Declarações

ATY declares that she has no competing interests.

Revisores

Michael Cheung, BSc (Hons), MB ChB, MRCP, FRACP

Acting Head

Department of Cardiology

Royal Children's Hospital

Melbourne

Australia

Declarações

MC declares that he has no competing interests.

Rajat Bhatt, MD

Assistant Professor

Internal Medicine

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC)

Lubbock

TX

Declarações

RB declares that he has no competing interests.

Henry M. Sondheimer, MD

Professor of Pediatrics

Clinical Director

Pediatric Cardiology

The Children's Hospital

Denver

CO

Declarações

HMS declares that he has no competing interests.

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Principais artigos

Baumgartner H, De Backer J, Babu-Narayan SV, et al. 2020 ESC guidelines for the management of adult congenital heart disease. Eur Heart J. 2021 Feb 11;42(6):563-645.Texto completo

Hamrick SEG, Sallmon H, Rose AT, et al. Patent ductus arteriosus of the preterm infant. Pediatrics. 2020 Nov;146(5):e20201209.Texto completo  Resumo

Wilson WR, Gewitz M, Lockhart PB, et al. Prevention of viridans group streptococcal infective endocarditis: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2021 May 18;143(20):e963-78.Texto completo  Resumo

Stout KK, Daniels CJ, Aboulhosn JA, et al. 2018 AHA/ACC guideline for the management of adults with congenital heart disease: executive summary: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2019 Apr 2;73(12):1494-563.Texto completo  Resumo

John AS, Jackson JL, Moons P, et al. Advances in managing transition to adulthood for adolescents with congenital heart disease: a practical approach to transition program design: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. J Am Heart Assoc. 2022 Apr 5;11(7):e025278.Texto completo  Resumo

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