{"id":342,"date":"2021-07-20T22:02:52","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T01:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pequenoprincipe.org.br\/newsano5\/en\/?p=342"},"modified":"2021-07-22T13:54:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T16:54:29","slug":"pequeno-principe-hospital-reaches-the-mark-of-15000-catheterizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pequenoprincipe.org.br\/newsano5\/en\/6\/pequeno-principe-hospital-reaches-the-mark-of-15000-catheterizations\/","title":{"rendered":"Pequeno Pr\u00edncipe Hospital reaches the mark of 15,000 catheterizations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Gabriel Carvalho Domingues is only 6 months old and is already a winner. The boy was born with a severe congenital heart disease \u2013 transposition of the great arteries (TGA) and interventricular communication (IVC, with small right ventricle in the diagnosis), but his diagnosis was late. \u201cHe was already almost 2 months old when the doctor suspected his difficulty in breathing and asked for tests,\u201d says his mother, Geissebel Fl\u00e1via Carvalho Silva. With an inconclusive diagnosis, the boy, who was born in Guaratuba, on the coast of Paran\u00e1, was referred to Pequeno Pr\u00edncipe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen we arrived here, the doctors informed me that the case was very serious. He had a catheterization and a banding [surgical correction to force the development of the ventricle, which was small]. He was hospitalized for 27 days, 20 of which in the ICU. Now, at 6 months of age, he had another catheterization, to verify if the surgery to correct the great arteries could be done,\u201d explains his mother. \u201cFortunately, the second catheterization showed that there was ventricular growth. With this, we discussed with the team about the surgery for definitive correction, which gave him the opportunity to develop normally,\u201d informed the cardiologist Cristiane Binotto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gabriel\u2019s second catheterization was the 15,000th<\/sup> exam performed by the Pequeno Pr\u00edncipe\u2019s Hemodynamics Service. \u201cMany people relate the catheterization to heart problems in adults, but in fact children also need this intervention, which sometimes works as an examination, helping in the diagnosis, and sometimes as a surgical procedure,\u201d emphasizes the doctor who heads the service, L\u00e9o Agostinho Solarewicz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About 20 catheterizations per month were performed at Pequeno Pr\u00edncipe Hospital in 2020, a year in which all procedures registered a sharp drop because of the coronavirus pandemic. The historical average was more than 30 procedures each month. Approximately 65% of them are to help in diagnosis. The other 35% are surgical, to correct residual injury from surgeries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike adults, who most often need catheterization to correct acquired diseases, the children who need to undergo the procedure are born with some congenital heart disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hemodynamics<\/strong>
Hemodynamics is a method of diagnosis and therapy that uses catheterization to obtain functional and anatomical data on the various heart diseases. Catheterization consists of inserting catheters monitored by an electrocardiograph, which follows the path of the peripheral arteries and veins to the heart cavities and great vessels. Catheterization allows radiological visualization of the cardiac cavities and great vessels, by means of contrast injection through the catheter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congenital heart diseases<\/strong>
Congenital heart diseases affect about 30,000 babies every year in Brazil, and are the third leading cause of death in newborns before the 30th<\/sup> day of life. The diseases affect eight babies for every 1,000 live borns, and one to two cases are newborns with duct-dependent heart diseases, i.e., requiring surgery soon after birth or a hemodynamic intervention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reference<\/strong>
The Cardiology Service of the Pequeno Pr\u00edncipe Hospital is a reference in the treatment of patients with congenital cardiopathies. It is the service that carries out the largest number of outpatients in the country and the second in number of surgeries. It is also the main one regarding procedures in newborns up to 29 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has highly trained professionals \u2013 including pediatric cardiologists, clinicians, and intensivists in pediatric cardiology ICU specifically for post-operative care and transplants, surgeons who operate only on children, the first pediatric electrophysiology team in the country, and a hemodynamicist \u2013 in addition to an exclusive structure for care and hospitalization, including an ICU. In 2020 alone, the service performed 4,054 outpatient consultations, 402 surgeries, and three heart transplants. In the same period, it recorded 678 hospitalizations and more than 9,200 exams, including catheterizations, electrocardiograms, echocardiograms, and electrophysiology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here and meet Gabriel, the catheterization number 15,000.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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