Revive young hearts

Early surgery for babies with heart disease is a common trend now and is human (children have no recollection of pain if surgery before 2 years of age).

On October 17, the day-to-day operation list of Ho Chi Minh City Heart Institute was 5 cases, including a 13-month-old patient. However, this is not the smallest case because the hospital has successfully operated a new case for a few months . 2 weeks old!

Miracle

Heart surgery for a ventricular ventricular for a 13-month-old child.The middle one is the doctor Nguyen Minh Tri Vien, the chief of the surgery

Last week, in a small house on Tan Hoa Dong Street, Binh Tan District - Ho Chi Minh City, Mr. Nghia, 40 years old, told us about his child's' death and resurrection 'case:' My husband and I founded The family is late, the last year has good news, so both domestic and foreign expect us to have the first healthy baby to rely on later. Earlier this year, she was born, at first completely normal, but then there were more and more strange signs: neck-neck when sleeping, crying like cats, sucking 'growling' like puppies. Half a month later, she had fever, cough, went to see Children's Hospital (BV) 1, the doctor said she only had sore throat. When I got home, my grandchildren got worse. When I went back to the doctor's office, my doctor found out that he had a serious heart disease: ventricular septal defect, great artery displacement. Knowing this news, my wife and I seemed to die, thinking that we considered losing our children. However, after entering Children's Hospital 1, the doctor said he still had a chance to live if he had an early surgery at the Heart Institute. I took her to the Heart Institute for a file, and a few months later people were called to hospital. The surgery lasted nearly 8 hours. Discharge day, grandchildren are pink, healthy as a normal child '.

Just like the case above, baby Đ.HAT, his first child, Ms Cong Anh - Nhu Le (working in Nha Be district-Ho Chi Minh City), was born with abnormalities in the heart as ventricular septal, surviving at the ductus arteriosus and great artery displacement. Both doctors at Children's Hospital 1 and Heart Institute all predict the success of the surgery is very low. Accept the bet with fate and do not want to let you live miserable with heart disease, you decided to give me heart surgery. The surgery was completely successful, after surgery, she was no longer milky when she was breastfed, no longer black and purple when she cried and did not have sundry as before. Ms. Nhu Le said: ' After finishing lying down, I recovered for 2 weeks but I gained nearly half of my weight. When I was discharged from the hospital, she was bright and beautiful, no one realized it, it was amazing! '

Early surgery, children develop as usual

Doctor Nguyen Minh Tri Vien, Head of Neonatal Heart Surgery Group - Heart Institute of Ho Chi Minh City, said early heart surgery is the current trend in advanced countries because if the heart structure changes later, the abnormalities become worse. more difficult to fix later. Especially heart diseases such as aortic disruption, severe aortic stenosis, severe aortic valve atrophy, general artery body, arterial transposition . early surgery is very necessary, because if No child will die within a few weeks of birth.

Another benefit of early heart surgery is humanity, because if operated before 2 years of age, the child will not have any recollection of the pain of the operation. On the other hand, if surgery is delayed, this recollection may become a misfortune for a lifetime of life. It is a sequelae of mental, sequelae more physically and intellectually than delayed surgery. Indeed, the period from birth to 3 years is essential for development, improvement of the cortex and body. This requires oxygen and many other nutrients. In children with heart disease, in addition to lack of oxygen, children lack of nutrients (due to not being able to feed, sundry .), so if for a long time, the intellectuals are underdeveloped, the body is stunted, Later, if the heart surgery and how to compensate how much can not catch up the normal child.

Determined to catch up with the world level, 5 years ago, Ho Chi Minh City Heart Institute silently prepared the project of neonatal heart surgery by sending a young doctor to study at famous hospitals of America, France, England, Australia . and in the past year, doctors like Vien (surgery), Quy, Phan (anesthesia), Tri, Hao (resuscitation), Bang, Tu (out-of-body circulation), Thien, Tuyen (internal medicine) turn back to deploy. Starting from easy shifts, the group can now make complicated, small cases, several months old. Dr. Tri Vien said: ' The leading bird of the program is Dr. Phan Kim Phuong, Deputy Director of the Heart Institute, because she cherished this program long ago and always pushed us forward. In addition, the program received support from the supervisory council, especially Prof. Alain Carpentier, Prof. Christian Brizard; members of the board of directors such as TS-BS Nguyen Ngoc Chieu, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pham Nguyen Vinh and the collective of doctors and physicians, staff of the Heart Institute ".

Success rate is approximately foreign

Until now, Heart Institute of Ho Chi Minh City can solve 2 of the most complex forms of congenital heart disease, arteriosclerosis and arterial transposition.The first type of operation was 6 cases, after approximately 20 cases, the rate of postoperative survival was about 90%!Dr. Kim Phuong said the program's human and technical problems were solved, the remaining problem was the infrastructure.Because there are only 2 operating rooms, it is difficult to speed up the early surgery, not to mention that the Heart Institute's recovery room is quite small, used for both adults and children, leading to many complications in treatment.However, the city has recently agreed to upgrade the treatment capacity of the Heart Institute (invests 100 billion VND), this will be good news for families with children with congenital heart disease.

Post and photo: Phan Son