What is a balloon septostomy?
Balloon septostomy is a type of heart surgery, usually performed in young children with developmental abnormalities in the heart. During this operation, the surgeon puts a small balloon into the heart to extend the passage for blood to get through. This allows the heart to work more efficiently than before, but as a temporary measure before a more complex surgery can be tried.
The heart is basically a pump for blood that moves around the body, transports nutrients and oxygen to all vital organs of the body. There are two main directions of blood, far from the lungs with oxygen and towards the lungs with carbon dioxide. The heart consists of chambers; One side of the heart contains blood with oxygen, while the other contains deoxygenated blood.
Every heart consists of four chambers; The first two are called atriums and the bottom two are chambers. The blood of each type moves through separate chambers, so oxygenated and neo -oxgenated blood do not mix. During pregnancy, sometimes during pregnancy, the development of the heart does not occur as normal, which maylead to the exchange of vessels attached to the heart. In order to help alleviate problems caused by mixing blood, surgeons can use existing holes in the heart. These are foramen ovale, which represent holes between two atrials that are present in all newborn children, and are usually closed within a few days.
Developmental heart problems can cause the baby to be free of oxygen because the blood does not travel throughout the body correctly and can be mixed with deoxygenated blood. Cardiac surgeons can help blood more normal movement by increasing existing holes in the affected area, directing blood in an alternative way. An example of one of these operations is a balloon septostomy, which includes foramen ovale.
before the foramen ovale closed within a few days of birth, the hole allows oxygenated blood to move to the correct chamber. Enlargement of the hole helps this movement because the survivorThe RGs use the balloon septostomy to stretch the hole with an inflated balloon. Initially, the balloon is released and inserted into the circulatory system through the cut in the groin before it passes through the containers into the hall. After entering the heart of the surgeon, the surgeon places the balloon over the foramen oval, inflates the balloon and then inserts it back into the opposite hall, thereby increasing the hole. Balo septostomy operation is a temporary repair of a larger problem, which may also require reconstruction surgery.