Clinicoradiological Correlation
Case 6 / 2018 – Percutaneous Occlusion of a Large Ductus Arteriosus in a Low Weight Infant, with Immediate Clinical and Radiographic Improvement
Clinical Data
The patient was a one-year-old infant with Down syndrome, and heart murmur auscultated from birth. The child had a difficult clinical course due to failure to thrive, tachypnea, poor suckling due to fatigue and repeated respiratory infections, with pulmonary hypersecretion, and was receiving captopril and furosemide.
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