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Hello doctor! After performing postpartum ultrasound, the doctor diagnosed that the baby had a small muscle ventricular septal defect with a diameter of 2.2 mm. Doctor let me ask, does the baby have a small muscle ventricular septal defect with a hole diameter of 2.2mm, should I have surgery? Looking forward to your advice, thank you doctor!
Nguyen Van Dong (2020)
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Hello, the doctor would like to answer the question: “Does the baby have a small muscle septal defect with a diameter of 2.2mm hole? There are two main methods of ventricular septal defect treatment: open heart surgery and intervention to close the ventricular septal defect.
Currently, FDA (US Food and Drug Administration) only allows percutaneous ventricular septal closure in patients with small muscular septal defect, apex or after complications of myocardial infarction. heart.
Indications to close the hole by open-heart surgery depend on the location, size of the hole, the patient's failure to respond to medical treatment, or other congenital heart disease. Your baby is described as having "small muscle ventricular septal defect", I don't know if it is still associated with other congenital heart disease, so for specific advice you should take your baby to see a doctor. cardiologist.
If you still have questions about the indication for surgery and the safety of surgery, you can go to a hospital of Vinmec Health System to check with cardiologists. Thank you for trusting and sending questions to Vinmec. Wishing you lots of health. Best regards!
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Answered by Master, Doctor Do Nguyen Thuy Doan Trang - Head of Extracorporeal Circulation Team - Cardiovascular Center, Vinmec Central Park International General Hospital
