How to treat congenital heart disease in children

Congenital heart disease is a malformation of the heart and blood vessels caused by abnormal development of the heart and blood vessels during the fetal period. It is the most common heart disease in children. Congenital heart disease is the most common cardiovascular disease in children. It is caused by viral infection, drug damage, electromagnetic radiation, and nutritional deficiency in the early stages of fetal development, usually the first 3 months of the embryo, which causes the fetal cardiovascular development to stagnate or develop abnormally. It accounts for about 15% of newborns. So, how to treat congenital heart disease in children? Let us find out through the following article content.

Congenital heart disease is a malformation of the heart and blood vessels caused by abnormal development of the heart and blood vessels during the fetal period. It is the most common heart disease in children, accounting for about 15% of newborns. It is mainly divided into two categories: cyanotic and non-cyanotic. The cyanotic type is when the baby's mouth and extremities appear cyanotic after birth, especially when crying; non-cyanotic babies have no symptoms in the early stages, and heart murmurs are often found during physical examination, which can be confirmed by echocardiography. The main ones are patent ductus arteriosus, atrial septal defect, pulmonary valve stenosis, etc. The heart disease should be treated early after diagnosis and needs to be repaired under direct cardiac vision under extracorporeal circulation. A midline chest incision is routinely chosen to split the sternum to display the surgical site. Large scars are often left after the operation.

The cardiac surgery department uses a small right axillary chest incision to treat congenital heart disease in children. The sternum is not split and the ribs are not removed or cut, thus maintaining the continuity of the bony thorax. The operation is minimally invasive, pain is mild, and recovery is quick. The incision is small and located in the axilla and lateral chest wall. When the right upper limb is in a functional position, the incision scar is almost invisible, freeing the sick children and their parents from the burden and pain caused by the scar left by the median incision before the sternum.

Over the past 20 years, due to the development of advanced modern examination techniques (such as cardiac catheterization, cardiovascular angiography, color Doppler echocardiography and radionuclide cardiovascular angiography, etc.) and the progress of hypothermia anesthesia, extracorporeal circulation and cardiac surgery, many common congenital heart diseases can be accurately diagnosed and cured, and some complex heart malformations can also be treated surgically.

How to treat congenital heart disease in children? Through the detailed explanation of the above article, I believe you already have some answers. For children with congenital heart disease, while cooperating with the doctor's active treatment, the careful care of parents is also very important. To prevent sternum deformity and the formation of "pigeon chest", they should try to sleep on their backs and less on their sides. If you experience colds, diarrhea, gingivitis, tonsillitis, or fever of unknown cause within three months after surgery, you need to seek timely treatment and use appropriate sensitive antibiotics to control the disease.