Can Traditional Chinese Medicine Treat Patent Ductus Arteriosus?

Patent ductus arteriosus is a disease that does exist in our lives. It has a relatively high incidence rate and is also very harmful. Therefore, this disease must be treated actively. So, can traditional Chinese medicine treat patent ductus arteriosus? Of course not. Let's take a look at the treatment methods for patent ductus arteriosus.

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(1) The surgical effect is good. Once the diagnosis is confirmed, surgical treatment is required, and the surgical mortality rate is less than 1%.

Those who have not undergone surgery may have concomitant infective endocarditis. The age for elective surgery is 1 to 6 years old. After surgery, the continuous murmur of most children disappears immediately, and the cardiac shadow shrinks significantly 3 to 6 months after surgery and gradually returns to normal. Recanalization after catheter ligation rarely occurs, but if it does occur, another surgery is required to cut and suture.

(ii) In recent years, there have been reports of interventional methods being used to block catheters both at home and abroad.

Method: First, insert the steel wire from the arterial end, pass through the arterial catheter, and then pull it out from the venous end to form a circular path in the body. Then, push the prepared plastic plug through the circular path to the arterial catheter to form a blockage. It is not easy to succeed in preschool children because of their thin blood vessels.

(III) Patent ductus arteriosus of premature infants can usually close naturally after birth when they reach mature age, so no treatment is required for those asymptomatic. If there are symptoms, treatment with prostaglandin synthetase inhibitor indomethacin can be tried, 0.2 MG/KG each time, orally, by enema or intravenous injection. If ineffective, it can be repeated 1 to 2 times every 8 hours, with a total amount not exceeding 0.6 MG/KG. It is contraindicated in patients with poor renal function, serum creatinine 132.6UMOL/L (1.5 MG/DL), or urea nitrogen 7.1MMOL/L (20 MG/DL), bleeding tendency, platelet count 50×109/L, or suspected necrotizing enterocolitis.