With the popularity of post-birth checkups, more and more babies are found to have precocious heart disease, causing many first-time parents to go from joy to panic, and often parents will come to the clinic with their babies in their arms with a look of anxiety asking if precocious heart disease can be cured. Medically speaking, congenital heart disease is indeed a major killer of babies, but many congenital heart diseases can be treated or even cured through surgical methods. Surgical treatment for congenital heart disease includes the following three main methods: a. Surgical open-heart surgery
Surgical open-heart surgery is the main treatment for congenital heart disease, which is applicable to almost all simple congenital heart disease and complex congenital heart disease, but surgical treatment is traumatic, the complication rate is relatively high, the recovery time after surgery is long, a few patients may have arrhythmia, thoracic, cardiac effusion and other complications, but also leaves a surgical scar which affects the aesthetics, and has a certain adverse psychological impact on patients. Interventional blocking surgery
Interventional occlusion surgery is a new type of minimally invasive treatment developed in recent years, which relies on complete equipment, advanced catheterization laboratory, and skilled specialists, and is mainly applicable to children with unclosed arterial ducts, atrial septal defects and partial ventricular septal defects, pulmonary valve stenosis, and other deformities that do not combine with other surgical correction. Interventional occlusion surgery is characterized by minimal trauma, rapid postoperative recovery and no surgical scarring, but is relatively expensive. At present, the province has implemented the new rural cooperative medical assistance for precardiac disease, which can provide free treatment for arteriovenous ductus arteriosus, atrial septal defect, ventricular septal defect, and pulmonary valve stenosis, thus solving the financial worries of many poor families. Combined Interventional and Surgical Procedures
Combined interventional and surgical treatment is also known as inlay technology, which is a new technology that has emerged in the past two years. Instead of opening the chest, a small incision of 2-3 cm is made in the anterior sternum, a pusher is placed, and under the guidance of cardiac ultrasound, the blocker is released to plug the gap. Combined interventional and surgical procedures have a shorter average operative time and faster postoperative recovery for patients, maximizing the success rate and outcome of treatment of complex malformations. It is now commonly used in patients with partial atrial septal defects, ventricular septal defects, and patent ductus arteriosus. Due to the continuous improvement of cardiac surgery and the development of interventional blocking therapy, the risk of surgery for the treatment of precardiac disease has been greatly reduced, and many children with precardiac disease recover well after surgery, and can even live and study like healthy people, so parents should take their babies to the doctor as soon as possible when they are diagnosed with precardiac disease to avoid delaying the treatment.