21 years of living with a heart with 4 diseases

On January 16, Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy said, after 21 years of living with a heart with four illnesses, or "quadrangle of Fallot" , MTH's heart was operated on to return to normal. .

MTH patient from Thai Binh, currently working as a worker in Ho Chi Minh City, visited the Department of Cardiology and Cardiology at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in early January 2007. Patients H was "quadrupled Fallot" or also called "purple" heart disease, so even after birth, there were completely pale skin.

MTH patients are receiving postoperative care.
(Photo: H.Cat)

"Four Fallot syndrome" is one of the congenital heart diseases that are very common in major heart surgery departments such as the Heart Institute, Cho Ray Hospital .

These four conditions include: large ventricular vents; the aorta rides the horse on the ventricular septal wall at the site of the catheter (squeezed upwards between the double heart septum); narrowing out the right ventricle (blood cannot go out to the lungs); and the ventricle must be thickened due to the force of contraction to expel blood from the narrowing of the right ventricle in the right ventricle.

Stenosis of the right ventricle (pulmonary artery stenosis) causes blood to the lungs less. The whole body lacks oxygen, so the skin becomes purple and blue. In addition, the aorta rode on the ventricular septal wall immediately, so the black blood in the ventricle must be mixed with red blood to all organs in the body.

On 11/1, doctors of the Department of Cardiology and Cardiology at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy have used a new surgical technique to treat this condition with tetanus. By this technique, the doctor does not cut the right ventricular opening, but retains the pulmonary valve ring. Previously, after surgery through the right valve and opening of the right ventricle, the right ventricle had scarring and weakened.

Instead, doctors carried out open pulmonary artery and right atrium. Through those two openings, the doctors took the pericardium to close the vent, and at the same time removed the pericardium to patch the right ventricular outflow, after cutting all the muscles causing narrowing.

Even during the operation, the skin of MTH patients became rosy.

According to Dr. Nguyen Hoang Dinh, Head of the Department of Cardiology, although this technique is more difficult, it can preserve the contraction of the heart.

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