“Doctor, please do something! It’s my fault, if only I had brought my child here earlier! Doctor, please save my child! It’s all my fault, why did I wait? I regret it.” The mother of a 12-year-old child with precocious heart disease cried out in anguish and remorse when she was told that her child had lost his chance for surgery. As a cardiovascular surgeon, Li Pingyuan of the Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at Beijing Fu Wai Hospital often faces such heartbreaking and helpless scenarios. Many children with precocious heart disease may be found at birth or as soon as they fall ill during infancy, and this diagnosis is a bolt from the blue for the parents at the time! Since then, the journey of seeking medical treatment slowly began. From reluctance to gradually accept this fact, from no knowledge to know a lot of knowledge of precordial disease, parents slowly strong, because of love. Some children unfortunately are several heart vascular development malformation, may be born before the death; some children combined with several anomalies but still tenacious to come to this world, through the pain and suffering but still powerless to go; most or very lucky, encounter the virtuous doctor, there are accurate instruments, superb medical skills to remove the disease from the beginning of the new life; some lucky children is very simple defect small Some lucky children have a very simple type of congenital heart disease, which basically does not affect anything and may not require surgery for life. A few parents lack knowledge of congenital heart disease and often seem overwhelmed when they hear that their child has congenital heart disease, but in fact most congenital heart disease can be cured with good early diagnosis and timely treatment. The benefits of early cure are obvious, early end of the disease torture to become a normal person to better enjoy a good life. Many parents feel sorry for their children and think that their children are too young to withstand the torment of surgery, so it is safer to wait until they are older and stronger before performing surgery, unbeknownst to them, many of them delay the surgery time again and again until they have severe pulmonary hypertension and lose the time for surgery, causing lifelong regret! Although the tolerance of surgery at a young age is correspondingly poorer and the risk of surgery is greater, if the heart malformation is complex or the lesion is serious, it can lead to blood circulation disorders and cause more serious damage to cardiopulmonary function! If the damage to the heart and lung function is gradually aggravated, even if the heart deformity can be corrected later, the damaged heart and lung function is difficult to recover! Successful surgery will not achieve the purpose of cure. Therefore, the best time for surgery for precordial disease should be determined by the specific condition of the child. There are also some parents, who do not recognize the danger of this disease in the late stage, blindly wait and keep their fingers crossed, which can also delay the best time for their children to have surgery. Some elderly people are blindly confident and superstitious, and are determined not to let their children have surgery, which delays the timing. The most heartbreaking thing is that many children do not have money for surgery because of family conditions, so do not lose faith! There are many enthusiastic people and organizations in the society, and there are also special funds for precocious diseases (refer to Dr. Li’s article area – the fund for precocious diseases that can be applied for at Fu Wai Hospital), so you can learn more about them and try to change the conditions, fight for help and treat your child as early as possible, so you can effectively avoid more straits later! A sick child can cause a family to be poor and make a poor family even poorer! Especially for families without a fixed source of livelihood or in rural areas, financial constraints, lack of knowledge and old-fashioned concepts can cause irreparable disasters for children with predilection for heart disease! If it has reached severe pulmonary hypertension, when the doctor clearly told that there is no chance of surgery, then the parents should be how regretful not to give their children earlier treatment ah 。。。。 The loss of surgery means waiting for death, and these lives will be slowly depleted in endless suffering. This is a very common clinical situation and we should know that many of these scenarios could have been avoided! If your child has a preexisting heart condition, no matter what the cause of the difficulty is, actively try to overcome it! Seek to give your child the earliest possible diagnosis and treatment! Many children with congenital heart disease die or are permanently disabled because of delayed surgery for various reasons! This is a very harsh reality! As long as the timing of surgery is seized, the current medical conditions can already make more than 90% of children with congenital heart disease completely cured. Therefore, parents must remember that children with precocious heart disease must be detected early and diagnosed early and treated early to prevent tragedies from happening again! I will continue to elaborate on the knowledge of pulmonary hypertension in my article later, and hope to draw your attention to it.