Adults with ventricular defects can be treated with surgery, medication and oxygen therapy.
1. If the ventricular defect is small and the patient has no obvious symptoms, then no special treatment is needed, and the patient should follow the doctor’s instructions and go to the hospital regularly to observe the status of the disease. If the ventricular defect is relatively serious, intervention is needed.
2. Surgery: If the patient has other cardiac malformations and pulmonary hypertension, surgery is a better treatment. Surgical treatment requires the establishment of extracorporeal circulation to repair the ventricular septal defect under direct vision. In addition, it is necessary to pay attention to the prevention of infection during surgery.
3. Drug therapy: diuretics, cardiotonic agents, vasodilators and drugs to lower pulmonary artery pressure can be used for treatment. Commonly used diuretics are furosemide, spironolactone, etc.; cardiotonic agents are digoxin, etc.; vasodilators are sodium nitroprusside, nitroglycerin, etc.; drugs to lower the pulmonary artery pressure are angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, such as captopril.
4. Oxygen therapy: this treatment is mainly for patients with cardiac insufficiency and pulmonary hypertension, which helps to reduce pulmonary artery pressure and right heart afterload.
After suffering from ventricular septal defects, you need to seek professional medical help, and then choose the best treatment method according to the patient’s specific situation, and the above drugs need to be used under the guidance of the doctor.