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Objective: The objective of our study was to evaluate the use of a severity scoring system incorporating markers of systemic under perfusion, pulmonary over perfusion and left ventricular (LV) function in predicting clinical outcomes in premature neonates. Methods: It is a single center prospective observational study involving newborns &lt; 32 weeks\u2019 gestation. An echocardiogram was done within seven days of life to measure variables previously known to predict severity of shunting in PDA including pulmonary perfusion index (PPI). Predictors of CLD\/death were identified using multivariate logistic regression. A severity score was derived and its ability to predict clinical outcomes was tested using a receiver operating characteristic curve. Results: We studied 98 infants with a mean (SD) gestation of 28.9 \u00b1 1.91 weeks and birth weight of 1228.06 \u00b1 318.94 g, respectively. We identified five echocardiographic variables along with gestational age that was independently associated with the outcome variable (PPI, LV output, Superior Mesenteric Artery [SMA] Velocity Time Integral [VTI], Peak diastolic flow velocity in Pulmonary Vein [PV Vd], and reversal of flow in diastole in descending aorta [DFR]). The range of severity score was 0 (low risk) to 12 (high risk). A higher score was associated with the primary outcome variable of CLD\/death (7.5 [1.2] vs. 3.6 [1.5], p &lt; 0.001). Our severity score had an area under the curve of 0.97 (95% CI 0.93\u20130.99, p &lt; 0.001) for predicting CLD\/death. Conclusion: Our new PDA severity score of 5.5 has a sensitivity and specificity of 94% and 93%, and positive and negative predictive values of 94% and 93%, respectively.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jcdd9040114","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,12]],"date-time":"2022-04-12T21:15:35Z","timestamp":1649798135000},"page":"114","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["A Novel Patent Ductus Arteriosus Severity Score to Predict Clinical Outcomes in Premature Neonates"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1644-7395","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Krishna Kishore","family":"Umapathi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Brieann","family":"Muller","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Cyndi","family":"Sosnowski","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4966-5113","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Aravind","family":"Thavamani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, UH Rainbow Babies Children\u2019s Hospital, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Joshua","family":"Murphy","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sawsan","family":"Awad","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7290-6678","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"John W.","family":"Bokowski","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"272","DOI":"10.1016\/j.siny.2015.03.004","article-title":"Preterm Patent Ductus Arteriosus: A Continuing Conundrum for the Neonatologist?","volume":"20","author":"Evans","year":"2015","journal-title":"Semin. 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