ArticlePediatric cardiology2011
Patent ductus arteriosus in the preterm infant: a survey of clinical practices in French neonatal intensive care units.
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- Management of patent ductus arteriosus in preterm neonates ≤32 weeks: a national survey of physician practices in Indian NICUs.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Article
- Diagnosis of patent ductus arteriosus by different echocardiographic methods in very preterm infants.European journal of pediatrics · 2025Article
- Personalized Evidence-Based Management of Patent Ductus Arteriosus in Preterm Infants.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2023Review
- Survey of PDA management in very low birth weight infants across Italy.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2020Article
- Neonatologist performed echocardiography (NPE) in Italian neonatal intensive care units: a national survey.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2019Article
- Changing patterns of patent ductus arteriosus surgical ligation in the United States.Seminars in perinatology · 2018Review
- Prophylactic Indomethacin Revisited.The Journal of pediatrics · 2017Article
- Comparative effectiveness and safety of indomethacin versus ibuprofen for the treatment of patent ductus arteriosus.Early human development · 2015Article
- Clinical and echocardiographic characteristics associated with the evolution of the ductus arteriosus in the neonate with birth weight lower than 1,500g.Einstein (Sao Paulo, Brazil)Article
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Abstract
Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is one of the most common problems in the care of premature infants, especially the extremely premature. There is no real consensus regarding the diagnostic criteria or treatment of a hemodynamically significant PDA. Its diagnosis, assessment, and treatment still remain challenges. Therefore, we investigated clinical practices in French tertiary neonatology centers regarding the management of PDA to compare their similarities and differences. We sent a questionnaire by email to the PDA specialist in every French tertiary neonatal intensive care unit. It contained 27 items regarding the unit's structure, method of diagnosing PDA, and treatment choices. The completed questionnaire were returned via email and analyzed blindly. The questionnaire response rate was 87.5%, which allowed us to draw some conclusions regarding French clinical practices in the care of neonates with PDA. Although the diagnostic criteria are quite similar, the therapeutic practices are rather different across neonatal care units. We highlight the great variability in French clinical practices when it comes to treating PDA and underscore the necessity for harmonization of these practices, which could be achieved using multicenter, randomized studies to identify the advantages of one approach compared with another.
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