Poor response to oral indomethacin therapy for persistent ductus arteriosus in very low birthweight infants.
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- 1 March 1979
- Vol. 41 (3), 301-303
- https://doi.org/10.1136/hrt.41.3.301
Abstract
Administration of oral indomethacin to treat cardiorespiratory failure in 7 low birthweight infants, after failure of conventional therapy, produced an improvement in only 2 infants. These infants had a higher birthweight than the group as a whole. Surgical ligation, rather than oral indomethacin, may be the treatment of choice for persistent ductus arteriosus in very low birthweight infants.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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