What are the advantages of interventional occlusion of congenital heart disease?

Congenital heart disease affects the growth and development of children and adolescents. If it is not corrected in time, it will seriously endanger the health and life of patients. The traditional treatment of congenital heart disease mainly depends on surgical thoracotomy, but it is traumatic and has many complications, which has a great psychological impact on patients. In recent years, with the improvement of catheter interventional therapy for cardiovascular diseases and the continuous improvement of instruments, interventional therapy for congenital heart disease has gradually matured. Many patients with congenital heart disease who used to need thoracotomy can now undergo minimally invasive interventional occlusion without thoracotomy. Next, I will introduce it to you. Minimally invasive interventional occlusion of congenital heart disease is to directly insert a catheter into the heart surface for occlusion under the guidance of real-time B-ultrasound. Compared with traditional thoracotomy for congenital heart disease, it has the following advantages: 1. Minimal trauma, less bleeding: Minimally invasive interventional occlusion usually requires only 2~3cm incision under the sternum, which has the advantages of minimal trauma, good concealment, no need for complete thoracotomy, and the trauma is obviously less than that of traditional surgery; Moreover, minimally invasive interventional occlusion has a short operation time and little bleeding, and usually does not require blood transfusion, which avoids the problem of blood transfusion infection that most patients are worried about. 2. Patients recover quickly without cardiopulmonary bypass: traditional open heart surgery needs the assistance of cardiopulmonary bypass. Although most patients who have received cardiopulmonary bypass can return to normal, there are still different degrees of abnormal physiological reactions, such as increased interstitial fluid, thrombocytopenia, hemolysis, fever, liver and kidney insufficiency, abnormal bleeding and so on. Minimally invasive interventional occlusion does not need the assistance of cardiopulmonary bypass, thus avoiding these harmful reactions. Moreover, patients undergoing minimally invasive interventional occlusion can recover quickly, usually after 24 hours of observation in intensive care unit, they can be transferred to general ward, while patients undergoing open heart surgery can be observed for at least 48 hours. 3. The curative effect is exact and the postoperative complications are few: minimally invasive interventional occlusion is completed under the guidance of real-time B-ultrasound, and the operation effect can be observed by B-ultrasound during the operation and adjusted in time until the defect is completely occluded. However, the traditional open heart repair may lead to residual leakage or conduction block due to improper suture, which is not easy to find during operation. Therefore, minimally invasive interventional occlusion has obvious advantages in therapeutic effect. The above content is an introduction to the advantages of interventional occlusion of congenital heart disease. I believe that after reading it, you have a certain understanding of the advantages of interventional occlusion of congenital heart disease. I hope I can help you.