Fix heart defects within 20 minutes

For the first time, Siberia surgeons in Russia have used unique technology to correct congenital heart defects. Previously, in order to overcome this malformation, chest surgery required to lead to many complications. Russian experts only cut a 3cm long stain. There is no need to shut down the heart so the surgery is much faster. The body can recover in a week.

The most common congenital heart disease is a hole in the septum between the ventricles and the atria that occurs in one or two babies from two hundred children. If this deformity is not corrected, there will be irreversible changes in the heart and lungs blood vessels. It may be life-threatening, high blood pressure. Previously, such heart defects had to be operated for 3-4 hours. The doctor opened the chest with a large incision, stopped the heart and put a complex heart-lung machine to temporarily replace the heart and lungs. Doctor heart surgery and patching are prepared from animal tissue.

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Doctors The Research Institute called Meshalkin in Novosibirsk has performed less risky and less painful surgery, significantly reducing the time of general anesthesia. From the start of 3cm incision until the end of the wound on the skin only takes 20 minutes. Short surgery time and less anesthesia are much easier for children. Through a small incision doctors reach the surface of the right ventricle. Neonatal cardiologist Grigory Zaytsev said:

"We opened a special seam, through which we proceeded to prick the thin wire from the right ventricle through a hole in the septum in the left ventricular cavity. According to this wire, we led the folding device system to After the surgery, the patient stayed in the intensive care unit for about 2 hours after 2-3 days after surgery. The time of post-intensive care, anesthesia, drugs is prescribed, the hospital stay is much less, the patient will recover within 1 week ".

Surgeries are being conducted regularly. The job is also to widely implement such an operation in the form of improvements that absolutely do not need chest incision. Currently, Novosibirsk surgeons have not performed many new surgeries.

In addition to the Research Institute called Meshalkin, similar technology is only used in China and Germany. In Russia, this is absolutely new.