Ventricular septal defect is the most common congenital heart disease, and in in the sitting is often encounter such patients. For children under 1 year old, the options for surgery are: the ventricular defect is relatively large, the left-to-right shunt is unrestricted, the pulmonary artery pressure is moderately to severely increased, pulmonary blood is increased, the child often suffers from pneumonia, and in some cases, pneumonia does not get out of the hospital at all; heart failure cannot be controlled, wheezing during breastfeeding, and weight does not increase. Wang Zhibin, Cardiovascular Surgery Department, First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University
Typical medical history: 1. Xue**, girl, 30 days old, weight 3.5 kg, suffered from pneumonia after birth and could not be discharged from the hospital. She was found to have a ventricular septal defect of 10mm, an atrial septal defect of 15mm and an arteriovenous ductus arteriosus of 3mm, and underwent direct visual repair of the atrioventricular defect + arteriovenous ductus arteriosus ligation.
2. Liu*’s daughter, 3 months, weight 3.5kg, the child was born with an immediate weight of 3.5kg, did not gain weight, wheezing when feeding, intermittent pneumonia, temperature can be controlled. She was found to have a ventricular septal defect of 10 mm and underwent ventricular septal defect repair. He gained weight before discharge.
If your child does not belong to the above cases, you can wait until after the age of 1 year, usually you can take a small axillary incision to do the surgery, and the damage to the child will be much less, and some small defects have the possibility of self-healing. Finally, I wish your child a speedy recovery.