A delicate neonatal cardiac surgery for the ligation of the ductus arteriosus of Botallo was performed in recent days at the sstructure ccomplex of neonatology e terapy thentensive neonatal, directed by Dr Roberto Cinelliof theSan Leonardo hospital in Castellammare di Stabia, TOsl Naples 3 Sud general director Giuseppe Russo.
She arrived to support the doctors from Stabia the cardiac surgery-anaesthesiology team ofL’Colli di Napoli hospital coordained by professor Guido Oppido, ddirector of cheart surgery peditorial, who carried out the operation in the department terapy thentensive neonatal of San Leonardo.
The Botallo duct is an arterial blood vessel which, during the phase fetal, guarantees the life of the babyor in utero through a blood flow between pulmonary vein ed arch of the aorta. After birth, this vessel closes allowsndo the transition from fetal to neonatal circulation.
In seriously premature babies, however, this sometimes does not happen and the patent Botallo duct can create serious problems with the small newborn’s circulation, causing reduced organ perfusion e heart failure. Treatment of this condition is usually medical, with the carrying out of cycles therapeutic with paracetamol e thebuprofen And, Alone in case of failure of these therapies, treatment is resorted to cardiac surgery.
The little patientfirstborn of a young 23-year-old mother, was born approximately winds days ago at 28 weeks of gestational age and today weighs just 1.210 grams.
The operation was technically successful, although we had to wait for the post-operative period to definitively resolve the prognosis.
Thanks from the director of the Stabiese garrison Massimo Maiolo to the Monaldi team led by Professor Oppido.
