What is septostomy?
Septostomy is a term describing several medical procedures. Most often it concerns the catheterization procedure in heart in very young children, often not more than a few days that do not receive sufficient oxygenated blood. It can also be called balloon septostomy and was developed at 60. Another form of this procedure is carried out in cases of twin-two transfusion and is carried out in the uterus.
Surgeons or Cath Lab Specialists in cardiology may decide to create communication between atrial or upper two chambers of the heart. When children are born, they have what is called foramen ovale or opens between these chambers, and this can be focused on the balloon extension. Alternatively, if a child has a small septu defect (ASD) elsewhere, doctors could expand the defect. This extension is usually achieved by catheterization, and when the area is reached, the balloon inflates to enlarge the hole. In the rare instance of ES balloon, surgery is required to create extensions.
The aim of septostomy is to increase communication between the right and left atrium. As far as it is concerned, it allows oxygenated blood to shorten the atrium that sends blood to the body. This is particularly useful in defects, such as the transposition of large arteries (TGA), where large arteries (lung valves and aorta) are attached to the wrong hall. Obtaining oxygenated blood into the right atrium is necessary because the right atrium is incorrectly attached to the aorta that provides blood to the body. This displacement increases the oxygen level in the right atrium by allowing to mix blood between the atrial.
In almost all cases, septostomy is not a permanent repair of the situation where heart defects create oxygen deprivation. This is what is called Pallication or Paliativa, which was a little bit of a real corrective operation. In the treatment of different types of heart defects, it is not always usable and may be most considered to be those causing cyanosis or insufficient schoAid oxygen transport to the body. Even in conditions such as TGA, doctors could immediately repair instead of taking time for a palliative step first. If septostomy consider when a real repair is carried out, surgery may be necessary to close the widespread ASD or foramen ovale.
Alternative definition of septostomy is the UTero procedure performed when the twins transfusion to two results in low amniotic fluid for one twins. Creating a hole between amniotic bags can cause more liquid shift to a neglected twin. In this procedure, the goal is the same: to create a communication that allows the fluid to go back and forth with greater ease.