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My daughter is 07month old and echo has diagnogsed moderate pda. we should go for angioplasty of for surgery?
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PDA: Your pediatric cardiologist is the best person to advice you on this. However surgery may offer a more durable permanent solution. The problem with angioplasty is that as the child grows and heart gets bigger, the device used to close the PDA may be small, higher chance of needing a redo.
Answered 2/9/2017
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