Xanit Hospital international becomes the first National Center to repair an aortic valve unicúspide a child four years old

Benalmádena, April 2012.- Xanit Hospital International has successfully conducted the first repair of aortic valve unicúspide that is applied to a child four years old at the national levela speech made by one of the internationally most renowned leaders in cardiac surgery, the German Professor Hans-Joachim Schäfers, specializing in the fields of aortic and mitral repair, aneurysm of aorta and surgery of pulmonary hypertension and which form part of the team of the Xanit Hospital international heart area.

The wide experience recognized worldwide of Professor Schäfers in repair of aortic valve both in the adult population as pediatric, and especially in “aortic valve unicúspide” through a technique developed by him, has been one of the main reasons why a familyresident in Bilbao, has moved to Xanit Hospital international, located in Benalmádena (Málaga) to speak in his 4 year old son.

The small had been operated on two occasions in his hometown. The first time operated neonate by a severe aortic stenosis (narrowing of the valve that makes that the heart can not properly eject the blood from the heart to the body) that it was resolved but remaining a significant valve regurgitation (i.e.)(there was a correct closure of the same, by what part of the blood coming out of the heart returned to fall towards him overloading it) ”, explains Dr. Carlos Porras, cardiac surgeon of Xanit Hospital international and responsible for Valvular reconstructive surgery unit, who explains that this situation, the child, at the age of 3, had to be intervened to try to correct the problem through a valve plastia.

This second intervention was failed, causing that last a year, the heart of the small further dilating and the capacity of contracting the same began to diminish, necessitating a new intervention. surgery offered to the parents of the minor in your focal point was to replace the valve with a prosthetic mecáNica (which could cause problems in the future for a small child) or perform an intervention of Ross, a very complex operation in which the aortic valve is replaced by another lung patient’s own, while the lung is replaced by one of corpse ”, explains Dr. Porras.

After request opinions in other centres, the family managed to contact Prof. Schäfers, who has performed more than 1,400 repair of aortic valve, finding himself intervened to patients in Spain, not being necessary to move to Germany to bring the baby to the intervention. expected was to repair the valve following the technique described by Professor Schäfers, and if not possible, perform a Ross, technical which is also a great expert, but, finally, it wasn’t necessary ”, assures Dr. Porras, who adds that could rebuild the valve with an excellent result verified by Transesophageal echocardiography in the same operating room. The postoperative evolution of the child was magnificent, being commissioned in very good clinical situation 5 days after surgery ”.

In the operation, Prof. Schäfers was accompanied by Dr. Carlos Porras and Dr. Juan Luis Valverde, Chief of the service of Anesthesiology of Xanit Hospital international. Postoperative care of the patient were carried out by the team of intensive paediatric of the Xanit Pediatrics unit led by Dr. Francisco Jesús García Martín, head of Pediatrics at the hospital.

The realization of this type of intervention is only possible in those hospitals which have a technological equipment of first line and which in turn have a multidisciplinary team of very experienced professionals, as it is the case of Xanit, concerning domestically in the CVD ”, says Prof. Schäfers, who clarifies that the prestige that has accumulated from the area of the heart of the hospital team both diagnosis and integrated treatment in research, as well as a long collaboration with some of its members, he encouraged to join his group of professionals.

Xanit Hospital international, which has agreements with the main national and international and mutual insurance companies of work, has the most advanced technology in the field of health.

Xanit International has a team made up of more than 650 professionals and has 13,000 m2 distributed over five floors with 110 individual rooms. It also has a medical center, Xanit Fuengirola, which brings your medical team to continue care with the same quality.