"These 48 hours have been the most enjoyable I have had in more than a decade!Try to wear **clothes frequently to put yourself in an alternating hot and cold environment, stay in a closed air-conditioned room for a long time, **plot tension**, sit for a long time and play with mobile phone ......Within 48 hours after the operation, the man personally restored the various situations that were easy to induce headaches in the past, and verified that the ** disease that had been in place for more than ten years finally ceased to exist, and he couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion, and it was even more difficult to hide his gratitude to the medical staff who treated him.
According to Mr. Zhang, a 41-year-old man, he has been suffering from migraine for more than 10 years, during which he has tried various methods such as infusion, muscle relaxation, physiotherapy, doubling medication, and even taking home remedies, but with little success. The intractable headache not only caused him to have obvious memory decline, slow reactions, weakened language expression skills, confused memory of recent events, poor sleep for a long time, and even severe vomiting and other discomforts, resulting in a significant reduction in his normal work and quality of life. In order to save his professional life, three days ago, he heard the word of mouth from acquaintances, and he came to the Yangtze River Shipping General Hospital and Wuhan Brain Hospital for diagnosis and treatment.
After improving the necessary examinations and previous medical data, and excluding routine brain organic lesions, the expert team of neurology and cardiovascular medicine preliminarily diagnosed that the root cause of Mr. Zhang's stubborn headache was caused by congenital heart disease such as patent foramen ovale. Further examination also confirmed this judgment, and there was indeed an abnormal hole of about 4 mm and 12 mm in size in the atrial septum of the patient's heart.
The foramen ovale is a small passage in the atrial septum of the human heart, which generally closes on its own within one year of birth, but if the foramen ovale does not close in children older than 3 years old, it is patent foramen ovale. Wu Xing'an, deputy chief physician of cardiovascular interventional specialist, explained that if the size of this unclosed "hole" is enough for blood flow through, an abnormal channel for venous blood to enter the artery directly will be formed, and once there is a slight thrombus through, it may also directly enter the brain, and at the same time, some vasoconstrictive substances in the right heart venous system, without the filtration of pulmonary circulation metabolism, will also directly enter the left cardiopulmonary circulation artery, resulting in cerebral vasoconstriction, affecting the blood microcirculation of the head, causing cerebral ischemia, cerebral cortex irritability and other abnormalities, and then headache reversal Make.
In order to avoid the deterioration of the condition, it can lead to a stroke that is life-threatening. With the recognition and full trust of patients and their families, Wu Xing'an led the cardiovascular intervention team to skillfully and accurately implant the occluder into Mr. Zhang's body, and successfully implemented a minimally invasive intervention for patent foramen ovale closure**. After the operation, Mr. Zhang's headache and discomfort disappeared immediately.
Patent foramen ovale is not uncommon. According to statistics, the incidence rate in the general population can reach up to 35%. Wu Xing'an pointed out that although not every patient with patent foramen ovale needs it, young and middle-aged people, if there is an unexplained headache, intractable migraine, dizziness, or even repeated strokes, in addition to actively excluding organic lesions in the brain, it is best to improve the patent foramen ovale and other related examinations, as soon as possible.
Reporter: Luo Bing Correspondent: Zhou Shan.
Editor: Wang Jian.
Editor-in-charge: Summer.
Editor: Wang Jun.