Chongqing News, February 19 (Jia Nan, Huang Feihong) On the 19th, the reporter learned from the Children's Hospital Affiliated to Chongqing Medical University that the hospital recently treated a boy who had suddenly fainted many times a year. It turned out that the left ventricular outflow tract, the "main traffic artery" where the boy's heart pumps blood throughout the body, was "blocked" by blood, resulting in insufficient blood supply to the boy's whole body, and the boy fainted.
The picture shows a doctor communicating with a patient. Courtesy of Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University.
The sick boy is 13 years old and from Dazhou, Sichuan, and in the memory of the boy's mother, the child will have 4 episodes of syncope in 2023, "Each time the syncope occurred, he had neither breathing nor heartbeat. ”
After the boy developed syncope, his parents took him to seek medical attention, and he was eventually diagnosed with severe complex congenital heart disease, with a diagnosis of "left ventricular outflow tract obstruction, ventricular septum, and thickening of the posterior wall of the left ventricle".
At the end of 2023, the boy fainted again at home, and the couple took Xiaowei (pseudonym) to the Department of Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery of the Children's Hospital Affiliated to Intensive Medical Care for treatment.
Due to the complexity of the boy's condition, a multidisciplinary hospital-wide consultation was conducted at the Children's Hospital of the Intensive Care Hospital. The boy is not only blocked by the "traffic" of the heart pumping blood to the whole body, the chief physician of the hospital's thoracic and cardiac surgery department Ernst & Young, introduced that the aortic valve is called the heart gate of the heart, and the normal aortic valve is a tricuspid valve, while the boy's aortic valve only has two leaflets, and when the valve opens, the opening is significantly smaller; At the same time, his aortic annulus diameter is only 11mm, compared to 19-20mm for his normal peers, and in addition, he also has subvalvular aortic stenosis, which can be described as "plugging on blocking".
Faced with such a critical condition and the possibility of sudden death at any time, the hospital's multidisciplinary team consulted and discussed, and the experts agreed that surgery as soon as possible was the only way out.
Before the operation, the Department of Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery of the hospital once again organized a multidisciplinary discussion with the whole hospital, conducted a risk assessment, and formulated a thorough surgical plan, which also won the full trust and support of the parents of the children.
In mid-January, the operation officially began, and the operation was performed by the chief physician of Ernst & Young with the assistance of the Department of Anesthesiology. The surgical team performed their duties, and the expected difficulties such as complex anatomy, mutated blood vessels, severely damaged and abnormally hypertrophied myocardium were resolved, and the operation was successfully completed after more than 6 hours.
After the operation, the child was released from the hospital quickly** and was discharged from the hospital recently. (ENDS).