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ArticleJournal of the American Heart Association2022

Trend and Outcomes for Surgical Versus Transcatheter Patent Ductus Arteriosus Closure in Neonates and Infants at US Children's Hospitals.

Michael T Kuntz, Steven J Staffa, Dionne Graham, David Faraoni, Philip Levy, James DiNardo, Nicola Maschietto, Viviane G Nasr

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In one paragraph

Article in Journal of the American Heart Association, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
24citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Procedural closure of the patent ductus arteriosus in preterm infants: a clinical practice guideline.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2024
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  2. Current practices in the management of hemodynamically significant patent ductus arteriosus.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2026
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  5. Cardiac Interventions in Neonates: State of the Art.Indian journal of pediatrics · 2026
    Review
  6. Changes in cardiorespiratory status after transcatheter patent ductus arteriosus closure.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2026
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  12. SCAI Position Statement on Transcatheter Occlusion of Patent Ductus Arteriosus in Premature Infants.Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Michael T KuntzDepartment of Anesthesiology Critical Care and Pain Medicine Boston Children's HospitalHarvard Medical School Boston MA.ORCID 0000-0002-0106-858X
Steven J StaffaDepartment of Anesthesiology Critical Care and Pain Medicine Boston Children's HospitalHarvard Medical School Boston MA.ORCID 0000-0002-7588-7596
Dionne GrahamDepartment of Pediatrics Boston Children's HospitalHarvard Medical School Boston MA.
David FaraoniArthur S. Keats Division of Pediatric Cardiovascular Anesthesia Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine Texas Children's HospitalBaylor College of Medicine Houston TX.
Philip LevyDivision of Newborn Medicine Department of Pediatrics Boston Children's HospitalHarvard Medical School Boston MA.
James DiNardoDepartment of Anesthesiology Critical Care and Pain Medicine Boston Children's HospitalHarvard Medical School Boston MA.
Nicola MaschiettoDepartment of Cardiology Boston Children's HospitalHarvard Medical School Boston MA.ORCID 0000-0002-5468-3658
Viviane G NasrDepartment of Anesthesiology Critical Care and Pain Medicine Boston Children's HospitalHarvard Medical School Boston MA.ORCID 0000-0002-2321-3987
Boston Children's Hospital · USBaylor College of Medicine · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background Pharmacologic therapy for patent ductus arteriosus closure is not consistently successful. Surgical ligation (SL) or transcatheter closure (TC) may be needed. Large multicenter analyses comparing outcomes and resource use between SL and TC are lacking. We hypothesized that patients undergoing TC have improved outcomes compared with SL, including mortality, hospital and intensive care unit length of stay, and mechanical ventilation. Methods and Results Using the 2016 to 2020 Pediatric Health Information System database, characteristics, outcomes, and charges of patients aged <1 year who underwent TC or SL were analyzed. A total of 678 inpatients undergoing TC (n=503) or SL (n=175) were identified. Surgical patients were younger (0.1 versus 0.53 years;

Indexed as

Ductus Arteriosus, PatentAgedChildHospitals, PediatricHumansInfantInfant, NewbornInfant, PrematureLigationRetrospective StudiesTreatment Outcomecardiac catheterizationcardiovascular surgical procedurecostoutcomespatent ductus arteriosus

Identifiers

PMID34970919
PMCPMC9075185
OpenAlexW4205479514

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