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My baby boy born at the gestational age of 35 weeks. Was diagnosed with PDA at the age of 2 days. Baby weight at birth was 2240 grams. Now baby is 50 days old and weight is 3.8 kg. Want to know whether i should go for echocardiography of baby to find if the pda still exists? At birth baby heart beat was 100 bpm at second day improved to 140 bpm.

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Dr. J Prabhakar Rao Pediatrician 32 yrs exp Ghaziabad · Accepted Answer

Dr. J Prabhakar Rao

Pediatrician 32 yrs exp Ghaziabad

I'm sure he was given medication for medical closure of PDA. Yes,a repeat ECHO is advisable.

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