A team at Miami-based Nicklaus Children’s Hospital’s Heart Institute successfully performed the first traveling bedside transcatheter patent ductus arteriosus closure on a 22-week-old premature infant.
PDA is a small blood vessel that typically closes soon after birth, but if it remains open, it can cause excess blood to flow into the lungs, according to an April 22 system news release. Physicians use a small catheter inserted through a vein to place a tiny device that closes the PDA from the inside.
The procedure, completed at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital Fort Lauderdale, which is located on the campus of Broward Health Medical Center, was performed by interventional cardiologists within the baby’s isolette.
“The traveling bedside PDA closures represent a pivotal shift in how we care for our most fragile patients and their tiny hearts,” Shyam Sathanandam, MD, chief of cardiovascular medicine and co-director of the Nicklaus Children’s Hospital Heart Institute, said in the release. ” Our goal is to bring interventional therapy directly to the infant’s isolette in NICUs throughout the community which eliminates unnecessary risks associated with transporting the babies out to tertiary centers. This also allows us to intervene early; at the precise moment when it matters most.”
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