11076 IUPAC Gold Book - patent ductus arteriosus 10.1351/goldbook.11076 11076 current 1 Congenital disorder wherein the ductus arteriosis fails to close after birth. This may lead to failure to thrive and increased breathing in early life. Congenital https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/10552 ductus arteriosis https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/10618 PAC, 2016, 88, 713. 'Glossary of terms used in developmental and reproductive toxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2016)' on page 791 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-1202) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11076/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11076/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11076/plain Citation: 'patent ductus arteriosus' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.11076 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-07-14T11:17:53+00:00