Is intravenous paracetamol with a lower dose also effective for the treatment of patent ductus arteriosus in pre-term infants?
Intravenous paracetamol may be a useful treatment option for the treatment of patent ductus arteriosus in pre-term infants with contrindication to ibuprofen. In our experience, lower-dose paracetamol is effective in closing the patent ductus arteriosus in 83.3% of the cases.
These data suggest that apoptosis may play an important role in determining breast cancer response to chemotherapy and that the level of treatment-induced apoptosis may have some value as a predictive marker.