Second heart surgery isn’t scary
As the age at surgery for children with congenital heart disease becomes increasingly lower and survival rates significantly higher, the number of children undergoing re-open heart surgery for the treatment…
Category: Complex congenital heart disease
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50 Questions on Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
1.Do I need to split the sternum for the center incision of heart surgery? A: Yes, different types of diseases require different parts to be revealed, and different operators have…
Treatment of supra-aortic stenosis and therapeutic outcome
Abstract OBJECTIVE: To compare the clinical outcomes of McGoon’s method with Doty’s method for the correction of supra-aortic stenosis. METHODS: 80 cases of SVAS were treated surgically from October 1996…
Structure of the heart and blood circulation
Most hearts are located on the left side of the chest, but a small number of people have a heart located on the right side of the chest, more often…
Can a baby with a heart murmur still act like a normal child of the same age?
In babies with physiological murmurs, no abnormalities in heart size, structure, hemodynamics and cardiac function are seen on cardiac ultrasound, which means they are normal healthy children and can routinely…
Bloodless heart surgery for infants and children
Blood conservation in cardiac surgery is a team effort, which is accomplished by close cooperation and scientific management of preoperative internal medicine doctors, intraoperative cardiac surgeons, extracorporeal circulation doctors, as…
Revolutionary Events in Cardiac Surgery
The heart is a constantly beating blood pump that maintains the constant circulation of blood in the body, and if it goes out of order and strikes, the life of…
How is the left-to-right shunt formed?
The left-to-right shunt type of congenital heart disease is the most common type of congenital heart disease. As already mentioned, the main ones are atrial septal defect, ventricular septal defect,…
What are the dangers of left-to-right shunts for people?
The left-to-right shunt causes the blood that should supply the whole body to shunt away from the septum midway, and the blood flow supplying the whole body is reduced.…
How is the right-to-left shunt formed?
Normally, the left heart system and pressure is high and the right heart system is low. As mentioned earlier, the blood from the left side is easily shunted to…