Health launches the pulmonary valve transplant project by catheter at the Heart Institute
The Ministry of Health and Population announced the launch of & nbsp; The pulmonary valve transplant system through the catheter, at the National Heart Institute of the General Authority of Hospitals and Educational Institutes, and this comes within the framework of implementing the assignments of Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health, the need to provide the latest methods of treatment for patients. The national heart is a giant medical edifice for the treatment and service of heart patients at the level of the Republic, adding that the institute is keen to keep pace with the latest interventional treatment techniques. After surgery from the latest technology, a modern, alternative development of surgery for these patients, targets patients from childhood (10 years) to an advanced age, who suffer from narrowness and severe reflux of the pulmonary valve, as a result of congenital defects or followers of open heart surgery to repair a congenital defect with a stretching and weakness of the right heart muscle, which avoids the risk of cardiac surgery for the second or the third time that may It leads to death as a result of complications of surgical intervention. Wait.
& nbsp; It aims to prepare medical cadres with a high degree of efficiency in accurate specializations, to enhance the role of the National Heart Institute, which is a medical edifice & nbsp; Great to the service of heart patients, especially children’s heart diseases, and in order to achieve this, the authority is making unremitting efforts to provide all devices and supplies, especially as it has a high cost of special valve cost, in addition to & nbsp; The balloon for expansion and supports used, where one process costs approximately one million pounds and is conducted at the institute for free, in order to provide high -quality medical service to Egyptian patients. In the institute in the pulmonary valve transplant through the interventional catheter within the activities of the system & nbsp; Pulmonary valve cultivation in the catheter inside the Heart Institute, which is the first process of its kind, during which a valve is implanted inside a pulmonary pillar and installed through the catheter, where the system started & nbsp; In the month of December 2024, in the presence of the foreign expert, Dr. Ziyad Hegazy, who participated in the manner unit of moral diseases of the Institute’s Heart Department, with the installation of two values for two patients 14 years and 16 years old, they had previously performed open heart surgery twice to repair a birth defect compound in the heart since childhood, and are still & nbsp; In need of open heart surgery for the third time, the safe alternative to these two children was the planting of the lumping valve in the catheter.
& nbsp; Micro -interventions and highly complex interventions that the Heart Institute seeks to continue treating patients, and patients have come out just 24 hours after the catheter is made.
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