What is endovascular treatment (surgery)?
As part of the campaign to help children with heart disease, we continue a series of publications on the following topics: What is congenital heart disease (CHD)? What variants of the Air Force exist or the Air Force classification? What is endovascular treatment (surgery)? And also stories of children with heart defects who will be helped within the action. Today, we will tell you what is endovascular treatment (surgery)?
What is endovascular treatment (surgery)?
Endovascular (intravascular) treatment is an advanced field of modern medicine, based on surgical interventions to eliminate heart defects, using special miniature catheter instruments inserted through a puncture of an artery or vein (usually on the thigh) under the control of X-ray.
During endovascular surgery there is no need to make an operative (band) incision, so typical for any type of surgery, use general anesthesia, which can harm the child’s body, as well as maintaining the body through artificial circulation and donor blood. The whole process of the operation is limited to puncturing (puncturing) the vessel with a special needle directly through the skin under local anesthesia.
These features make the method of endovascular treatment for children and newborns, completely non-traumatic, not causing postoperative complications associated with surgical wound. At the same time, it is possible to achieve the same, and sometimes more tangible results than traditional treatments.
Endovascular treatment frees the sick child and his parents from the fear of surgery, being, in essence, "surgery without surgery." The child’s stay in the hospital after the endovascular procedure is four to six times shorter than after conventional surgery. On the second or third day, the child can be at home with his parents.
The list of diseases that can be cured endovascularly is growing. Endovascular methods are becoming more widespread in the world, being, in fact, the medicine of the future, the medicine of the 21st century.
What is endovascular treatment (surgery)?
Endovascular (intravascular) treatment is an advanced field of modern medicine, based on surgical interventions to eliminate heart defects, using special miniature catheter instruments inserted through a puncture of an artery or vein (usually on the thigh) under the control of X-ray.
During endovascular surgery there is no need to make an operative (band) incision, so typical for any type of surgery, use general anesthesia, which can harm the child’s body, as well as maintaining the body through artificial circulation and donor blood. The whole process of the operation is limited to puncturing (puncturing) the vessel with a special needle directly through the skin under local anesthesia.
These features make the method of endovascular treatment for children and newborns, completely non-traumatic, not causing postoperative complications associated with surgical wound. At the same time, it is possible to achieve the same, and sometimes more tangible results than traditional treatments.
Endovascular treatment frees the sick child and his parents from the fear of surgery, being, in essence, "surgery without surgery." The child’s stay in the hospital after the endovascular procedure is four to six times shorter than after conventional surgery. On the second or third day, the child can be at home with his parents.
The list of diseases that can be cured endovascularly is growing. Endovascular methods are becoming more widespread in the world, being, in fact, the medicine of the future, the medicine of the 21st century.