HCM CITY — Doctors at the University Medical Centre in HCM City have successfully performed transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement on patients with congenital heart disease. Transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement is a minimally invasive surgery to replace a failing pulmonary valve, said Dr. Cao Đằng Khang, head of the hospital’s pediatric cardiovascular surgery department. The procedure helps improve blood flow with lower risk of infection and faster recovery than open surgery, he said. Doctors said that blood flow to the lungs may still be restricted after tetralogy of Fallot surgery and patients with repaired tetralogy of Fallot may have a leaky pulmonary valve and need to have their pulmonary valve replaced. The girl, who is now 14 years old, has recently undergone transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement that took two hours at the hospital.

Source: Viet Nam News May 27, 2023 16:32 UTC