Doctors at the in HCM City perform transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement on a patient with repaired tetralogy of Fallot. (Photo courtesy of the hospital)HCM City (VNA) – Doctors at the University Medical Centre in Ho Chi
Minh City have successfully performed transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement
on patients with congenital .
Transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement is a minimally invasive surgery to
replace a failing pulmonary valve, said Dr. Cao Dang Khang, head of the hospital’s
pediatric cardiovascular surgery department.
The procedure helps improve blood flow with lower risk of infection and faster
recovery than open surgery, he said.
The hospital has so far performed the procedure for five patients with repaired
tetralogy of Fallot.
Tetralogy of Fallot, a birth defect that affects normal blood flow through the
heart, accounts for between 5% and 10% of all congenital cardiac defects,
cardiologists said.
A young patient from Binh Duong was diagnosed with tetralogy of Fallot and was
treated by surgery at the hospital when she was two years old.
She then had regular follow-up visits with pediatric cardiologists at the
hospital after the surgery.
Doctors said that blood flow to the lungs may still be restricted after
tetralogy of Fallot surgery and patients with repaired tetralogy of Fallot may
have a leaky pulmonary valve and need to have their pulmonary valve replaced.
The 14-year-old patient has recently undergone transcatheter
replacement that took two hours at the hospital.
Her health condition is now stable and she lives an active life after the
surgery./.
Source: VietnamPlus
