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ArticleArchives of disease in childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition2026

Selective early medical treatment of the patent ductus arteriosus in extremely low gestational age infants: a pilot randomised controlled trial (SMART-PDA).

Souvik Mitra, Audrey Hebert, Michael P Castaldo, Tim Disher, Walid El-Naggar, Santokh Dhillon, Ziad Alhassen, Jenny Koo, Anup C Katheria, Abbas Hyderi and 15 more

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Article in Archives of disease in childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. [Evolution of treatment strategies and risk-stratified management of patent ductus arteriosus in preterm infants].Zhongguo dang dai er ke za zhi = Chinese journal of contemporary pediatrics · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

25 authors.

Souvik MitraDivision of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada souvik.mitra@cw.bc.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7477-7264
Audrey HebertDivision of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Centre hospitalier de l'Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
Michael P CastaldoDivision of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Tim DisherDivision of Neonatal Perinatal Medicine, IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Walid El-NaggarDivision of Neonatal Perinatal Medicine, IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Santokh DhillonDivision of Cardiology, IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Ziad AlhassenCHOC Children's, Orange, California, USA.
Jenny KooSharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women and Newborns, San Diego, California, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0925-7115
Anup C KatheriaSharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women and Newborns, San Diego, California, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9352-0934
Abbas HyderiDivision of Neonatal-Perinatal Care, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Kumar KumaranDivision of Neonatal-Perinatal Care, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Joseph TingDivision of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Aimann SurakDivision of Neonatal-Perinatal Care, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Jillian LarocqueDivision of Neonatal-Perinatal Care, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Dawn PepperDivision of Neonatal-Perinatal Care, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Lisa HornbergerDivision of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Marjorie MakoniSection of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA.
Dany E WeiszNewborn and Developmental Paediatrics, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7335-8674
Amish JainDepartment of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1413-2966
Fabiana BacchiniCanadian Premature Babies Foundation, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4343-774X
Austin J J Cameron-NolaDivision of Neonatal Perinatal Medicine, IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Tara HatfieldDivision of Neonatal Perinatal Medicine, IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Jon DorlingChild Health Outcomes Research at Leeds, University of Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1691-3221
Patrick J McNamaraDivision of Neonatology, Department of Paediatrics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7648-8872
Lehana ThabaneHealth Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Onatrio, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

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CardiologyIntensive Care Units, Neonatal

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PMID42150872

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