Is patent ductus arteriosus easy to treat? What is the detection method?

Patent ductus arteriosus is a very rare disease in life. Most of the time, it occurs in the fetal period. Generally speaking, it is difficult to detect and is usually discovered during prenatal checkups. If a child has this disease, as a parent, you will of course worry about whether patent ductus arteriosus is easy to treat. Let us first understand the actual examination methods.

Laboratory tests:

In general, routine examinations are normal. If combined with lung infection or endocarditis, infected blood pictures, increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate, anemia, positive blood culture, etc. may appear.

Other auxiliary examinations:

1. When the X-ray chest tube is small, the chest film is normal. When there is moderate to large left-to-right shunt, the left ventricle is enlarged, the left atrium is significantly enlarged, the aorta and pulmonary artery segments are prominent, the peripheral pulmonary vascular shadows increase, and the lung field is congested. The enlarged pulmonary vascular shadows in premature infants are difficult to distinguish from lung parenchymal lesions caused by respiratory distress syndrome and chronic lung diseases.

2. When the ECG catheter is thin, the ECG is completely normal. The larger the diameter of the catheter, the greater the left-to-right shunt. The ECG shows left ventricular hypertrophy, tall R waves in leads II, III, aVF, V5-6, and inverted T waves in the left chest leads; enlarged left atrium presents with wide P waves; if there is pulmonary hypertension, the T waves are tall and sharp, and the R waves in the right chest leads are enlarged. In premature infants with lung disease, the right chest leads are dominant.

3. Echocardiography Two-dimensional ultrasound and Doppler can show the size of the ductus arteriosus shunt flow. In the high parasternal section, place the probe between the first and second intercostal spaces on the left side of the sternum and rotate it slightly counterclockwise to obtain a clear image of the size and shape of the catheter.

Is patent ductus arteriosus delicious? Many parents are inevitably worried and anxious. In fact, for the health of you and your child, various examinations can be performed to confirm whether the child's condition is serious. As the child's physical condition continues to grow and develop, the condition can also have a good therapeutic effect.