The patent ductus arteriosus management debate: it's not over yet.
The patent ductus arteriosus management debate: it's not over yet.
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动脉导管未闭管理争论:尚未结束。
DOI:
10.1038/s41372-021-01059-w
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发表时间:
2021
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影响因子:
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通讯作者:
Reese,Jeff
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作者:
Lopata,SusanM;Slaughter,JamesC;Gillam-Krakauer,Maria;Reese,Jeff
A significant challenge in the care of the premature neonate is reducing the incidence of chronic lung disease (CLD). Efforts to tackle this challenge have included various respiratory support strategies, pharmacological interventions (caffeine, vitamin A, steroids), and active measures to induce closure of a patent ductus arteriosus (PDA)[1]. Prior studies have shown an association between a PDA and the development of CLD [2–6]. Despite these observations, studies evaluating various pharmacologic therapies used for ductal closure given both prophylactically and after evidence of the development of a hemodynamically significant PDA have generally failed to show a decrease in CLD and other adverse outcomes [7]. Neonatologists are left with the impression that strategies to close the ductus have limited benefit and may expose infants to unnecessary treatments and their associated risks. Although non-pharmacologic management strategies have gained popularity [8], there is insufficient information to know whether conservative or non-treatment approaches to a PDA are really the answer. In this issue of the Journal of Perinatology, Bussmann and colleagues report the results of a sub-analysis of The PDA RCT, a single-center double-blind study that found no difference in the primary outcome of CLD or death between infants with high risk for persistent PDA shunt at a gestational age of< 29 weeks who were treated with ibuprofen (n= 30) compared to placebo (n= 30)[9]. In the present study, a post hoc secondary analysis found that when infants in the treatment arm were stratified based on successful closure of the PDA, significantly lower rates of the composite CLD/death outcome were observed in infants with a closed ductus (29%) compared to those with unsuccessful PDA closure (85%) or those who received placebo (60%). The authors conclude that early shunt elimination may reduce CLD [10]. Further research validating this conclusion should be undertaken given the small sample size of the study (n= 17 closed DAs vs. n= 13 with persistent PDA in the treatment arm) which limits the power of the analysis and its broad applicability. While it may be tempting to include this new information with curated lists of RCTs of PDA treatment [11], the reliance on subanalysis of responders/non-responders in the intervention arm is conceptually problematic, losing the benefits of randomization and blind comparison groups, introducing unseen new confounders, and widening demographic gaps between the new comparison groups that may not be adequately resolved by regression analyses [12]. A strength of this study is the demonstration of the usefulness of a welldefined PDA scoring system in the debate on effect of PDA treatment on respiratory morbidity. A shared definition of a hemodynamically significant PDA is critical in neonatology for both research and clinical practice in order to both identify infants at greatest risk of morbidity from a prolonged ductal shunt and the efficacy and timing of treatment [13]. Decades-long efforts to develop clinical and echocardiographic criteria that discriminate between the innocent, soon-to-close PDA and the truly hemodynamically significant PDA that poses risk for end-organ injury have led to complex scoring systems [14], but only a few that have been tested in RCTs. To their credit, in this study, El-Khuffash, McNamara, and colleagues nicely demonstrate implementation of a PDA Severity Score (PDAsc) incorporating gestational immaturity and indicators of pulmonary over circulation and left ventricular diastolic function [15]. Clinical decision-making tools such as the PDAsc are essential to guide treatment and improve …
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DOI:
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发表时间:
1985-01-01
影响因子:
11.1
作者:
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