Are there risks associated with patent ductus arteriosus surgery?

Are there risks in the surgery for patent ductus arteriosus? Many people may not know much about patent ductus arteriosus. It is true that the incidence of patent ductus arteriosus is not high in life, but the harm after the disease occurs is relatively large, and surgical treatment is generally performed. So, are there risks in the surgery for patent ductus arteriosus?

In the absence of interventional treatment, the main method for treating patent ductus arteriosus is open-chest surgery. Open-chest surgery is also constantly developing and improving, from the early days when extracorporeal circulation was required to now when no extracorporeal circulation is required (during heart surgery, a special artificial device is used to replace the heart to maintain blood supply to organs throughout the body), gradually becoming more humane, making treatment simpler and less risky, while also making it safer for children. However, no matter where the surgery is performed, after all, the chest must be opened, general anesthesia and endotracheal intubation are required, and the child must stay in the recovery room after surgery. Interventional treatment has rapidly advanced and developed in recent years, closing the "bad channel" in the child's heart without opening the chest, without the need for extracorporeal circulation, without going to the recovery room, and without endotracheal intubation. This is a great innovation.

Interventional treatment can be performed completely under X-rays, and in recent years many scholars have proposed that it should be performed under ultrasound guidance. I personally think that ultrasound guidance is a trend of future development. With ultrasound guidance, it is a good thing for both children and medical workers. Ultrasound guidance has high requirements for doctors, requiring them to have good ultrasound diagnostic skills and skilled catheter operation skills. X-ray treatment will cause radiation to children, but skilled operation will minimize the dose of X-ray radiation to children.

All surgeries have risks. Interventional treatment of patent ductus arteriosus carries risks of anesthesia, intraoperative manipulation, and postoperative complications, but the probability of occurrence is very low. Therefore, parents do not need to worry too much.