heart echo

[mikica]

My doctor sugested to do prosedur on closure of heart echo. I resently hed a stroke. I am 42 years old.
He sugested tht it was related to heart echo and that would be good to close hole in my heart.

Can I know more about prosedure,?

[kenkeith]

Within 6 months normal tissue grows over the construction.  The success rate is 90% and within several days there will be evidence of success.

[patjohn]

how long does it take for the polyester fabric to repair the heart as my granddaughter has just had this done it fell off after 2 days and she has just had another one done we are worried this one could do the same if it does what can she have done then as her heart muscles are very weak

[kenkeith]

The echocariogram (echo) test shows a hole in the heart.  The hole causes a blood exchange between chambers rather than pumped in the normal sequence of functionality.  If not treated, the heart is overworked and can fail in the longer term.

The procedure using a device that is threaded in collapsed form into the heart by a catheter (narrow tube-like structure) and is opened at the site of the rupture in the ventricle walls. It is made of flexible nitinol metal and covered with a polyester fabric. New heart tissue can grow on this fabric, repairing the hole permanently.