Pulmonary hemorrhage in extremely low birth weight infants: Significance of the size of left to right shunting through a valve incompetent patent foramen ovale.

Jaclyn M Kappico Rowena CayabyabMahmood EbrahimiMerujan Y UzunyanLorayne BartonBijan SiassiRangasamy Ramanathan

Published in: Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association (2022)

ELBW infants with hsPDA who experienced pulmonary hemorrhage had a significantly restricted or closed FO. Evaluation of FO should be considered with serial echocardiograms when evaluating for hsPDA.

Keyphrases

low birth weight
preterm infants
pulmonary hypertension
human milk
preterm birth
aortic valve
mitral valve
heart failure
coronary artery disease
atrial fibrillation