The doctors at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City in Abu Dhabi have successfully performed an open-heart surgery on a 10-month-old baby. During the procedure, he weighed five kilograms. A 12-member team of doctors and nurses performed the Rastelli technique, which demands a cardiopulmonary bypass, as was adopted for this patient. The procedure was completed in seven hours to fix a congenital defect in the baby’s heart with a synthetic patch. How does the Rastelli procedure work?
An artificial patch is used to fill in the ventricular septal defect (VSD) in Rastelli surgery so that blood is directed from the left ventricle to the aorta. As a result, the blood can reach the organs. A coduit tube (synthetic or human or animal tissue-derived) is connected to the right ventricle to send blood to the pulmonary artery for oxygenation. More about this case The patient is recovering well. The patient is…
