For the surgery, your child will be given medicine so that he or she will sleep and not feel any discomfort. The surgeon will make a small cut between your child’s ribs to reach the PDA. He or she will then close the PDA with stitches or clips. Complications from surgery are rare and usually short term.
The procedure takes about one to three hours
The procedure usually takes one to three hours. After the procedure, your child will go to the recovery room for one to six hours to wake up from the anaesthesia.
PDA treatment options for premature infants include:
A transcatheter PDA closure is a minimally-invasive (non-surgical) procedure to close the ductus arteriosus. Specialized heart doctors called pediatric cardiac interventionists use a procedure called cardiac catheterization to place a small device in the vessel, which closes the PDA.
This procedure is also called “minimally-invasive PDA closure” or “PDA occlusion.” (Occlusion means blocking or closing a blood vessel.)
For many babies, a transcatheter PDA closure is usually preferable to open-heart surgery because it presents less risk and shorter recovery time. Premature babies who have surgery to close their PDA may face a difficult recovery in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Babies who have the non-surgical PDA closure procedure usually recover quickly and with little disruption to their other neonatal care.
After the procedure, we will bring your baby back to the NICU where we will monitor them closely for the next 24 to 48 hours. Circulation, breathing and feeding should improve soon after the procedure.
Your baby may experience some discomfort at the catheter access point. Our care team will keep a close eye on your child to ensure they are comfortable.
Following PDA closure, we will continue to care for your baby in the NICU until they are well enough to go home.
Director of Cath lab Latamangeshkar Hospital Digdoh Hills HingnaHead of Cardiology Department
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