Three children were operated successfully closed in France, a first in Europe, thanks to the use of “EchoNavigator” a new visualization software 3D heart, reported Sunday the head of the medical team of pediatric hospital in Toulouse (southwest).
This 3D navigation system had already been used in a hospital in Creteil, near Paris, and other European nosocomios although only “in adults and other problems,” said Philippe Acar, a cardiologist and pediatrician, confirming press reports.
How is it possible?
This system facilitates operations percutaneously, ie, to through a vein and so
This software’s open-heart surgery in children is prevented by cardiac malformations., developed by the company Philips, lets look at the same screen 3D ultrasound child’s heart which is operated and X-rays at the time that doctors introduce the probe with which they came to repair heart defects, he explained Professor Acar, who heads the clinical research project.
This new technology it tested in Toulouse joins a European project, said the cardiologist. About forty children benefiaciarán an operation of this type in the next two years, before this procedure to all hospitals in France and spread across the continent.
Hope
“We must demonstrate that provides real help to the surgeons,” explained Professor Acar.
Nellie, age 5, was the first to benefit from this new technology in early November. She had an interventricular hole, something very delicate to operate with conventional surgery. “And, this system really helped us,” Acar said.
A man of six years was subjected to the same operation. Also a 9 year old girl was operated in this way to solve a communication problem between the cardiac atria.
“Only need 72 hours of hospitalization and the child leaves no scars,” said Professor Acar. (I)
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