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Adult Congenital Heart Disease Interventions

Adult Congenital Heart Disease Interventions Including Atrial Septal Defect Closure Ventricular Septal Defect Closure PDA Device Closures Pulmonary AVM Closures

Adult Congenital Heart Disease Interventions in Dhakuria

Adult congenital heart disease intervention includes a wide range of cardiac procedures that extend from shunt closure to major vessel angioplasty and valve replacement. These diseases can be treated during childhood, but some types of diseases may not be serious to treat during childhood, but they cause problems in adulthood. The diseases include Atrial Septal Defect-treated with medicine, Atrioventricular Septal Defect, pulmonary atresia, and tricuspid atresia, which are treated surgically. Treatment for these congenital heart diseases depends on the severity of the heart condition. Some require lifetime medication support, which disrupts the lifestyle and cannot promise long survival rates. Few of them need Heart Transplants, which leads to many complications and reduces their life expectancy.

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There are many surgeries available to treat congenital heart disease.

  • Implantable Heart Devices: A device that helps to control the heart rate is an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) that is used to correct life-threatening irregular heartbeats. This helps to improve some of the complications of congenital heart disease.

  • Catheter-based treatment: Especially for adults, those can be repaired using thin, flexible tubes called catheters. This treatment allows a repair to be done without the need for Open-Heart Surgery. A catheter is inserted through a blood vessel until it reaches your heart. Sometimes more than one catheter is needed, and the doctor threads tiny tools through the catheter to repair the congenital heart defects.

  • Open-Heart Surgery: When the catheter is unable to fix a congenital heart defect, Open-Heart Surgery is the option that helps to treat the disease.

  • Heart Transplant: In cases where the congenital heart defect proves to be severe and resistant to other forms of treatment, a heart transplant is considered the last option. In cases where the congenital heart defect proves to serve and is resistant to other forms of treatment.

Around 1% of live births are reported with congenital abnormalities of the heart, out of which only 10% of them are manageable to survive till adolescence without any surgeries. The most common type of congenital heart disease is a ventricular septal defect. The symptoms of this defect depend on the size of the defect and the age of the patient.

A few signs should be observed for the possibility of congenital heart disease:

  • Murmur sounds that are continuous
  • Cyanosis slowly causes the skin colour to turn blue
  • Right bundle branch block, is a symptom that occurs in 1% of the middle age population.

An atrial septal defect is a congenital heart condition characterised by a hole in the upper chamber of the heart that one is born with. An atrial septal defect is a congenital heart condition characterised by a hole in the upper chamber. The hole increases the amount of blood going through the lungs. A large, long-term atrial septal defect can potentially damage the heart and lungs, necessitating surgery to repair an atrial septal defect and to prevent complications. 

A baby who is born with an atrial septal defect does not have symptoms; they begin in adulthood. The symptoms include:

  • Shortness of breath when exercising
  • Tiredness, especially with activity
  • Swelling of the legs, feet, or belly area
  • Irregular heartbeats, also called arrhythmias
  • Skipped heartbeats or fluttering heartbeats are called palpitations

An atrial septal defect is a birth defect where there is a hole in the wall that is the septum of the heart that divides the upper chamber of the heart. It happens as the baby’s heart is forming during pregnancy. The causes that play a role in congenital heart defects are:

  • Changes in genes
  • Medical conditions
  • Smoking
  • Familial history
  • Alcohol misuse

Pulmonary arteriovenous malfunctions are abnormal direct communications between the pulmonary arteries and pulmonary veins. Trans-catheter closure is the treatment of choice for such malfunctions. There are a variety of devices available such as detachable occlusion balloons, coil embolisation, and amplatzer vascular plugs, which are used for the Embolotherapy of relatively large pulmonary AVMs.

A ventricular septal defect (VSD) is a congenital heart defect characterised by an abnormal opening in the septum, the wall that separates the two lower chambers of the heart (ventricles). This opening allows blood to flow between the ventricles, which can lead to various complications depending on the size and location of the defect. 

  • Secundrum: This is the most common type of defect; it occurs in the middle of the wall between the upper heart chambers, called the atrial septum.
  • Primum: This type of defect affects the lower part of the wall between the upper heart chambers. This occurs at birth.
  • Sinus Venosus: This is a rare type of atrial septal defect; it occurs in the upper part of the wall between the heart chambers and is often associated with other congenital heart abnormalities.
  • Coronary Sinus: The coronary sinus is a part of the vein system of your heart. In this type, part of the wall between the coronary sinus and the left upper chamber is missing.

 

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