Toulouse (France) – AFP
Three children underwent a short while ago in France for heart operations without the incision for the first time in Europe, thanks to the use of software “Eco Navaegenz” tri-dimensional vision on what the medical team in charge of the children’s section in Toulouse Hospital reported (south-west France).
The surgical navigation system of the three dimensions of this user in Créteil basis in a hospital in the Paris region and in some European hospitals, but only in the operations “carried out on adults in other areas,” as Philip Acar cardiologist and children explained to AFP.
This system aims to facilitate the heart operations of traffic through one of the veins and avoid open-heart for children suffering from deformities.
And allowed code that are designed with Philips display image the heart and the X-ray on the same screen three dimensions, when doctors who will tilt from which corrects distortions enters the heart, he said Acar, who is a clinical research project.
The fall of this new technology tested in Toulouse in the framework of the European project as explained cardiologist. It is expected that about forty children benefit from the process with the help of this code in the next two years before it is circulated to all hospitals.
He explained Professor Acar, “must prove that it provides real help for surgeons.”
The five-year Nelly the first to benefit from this new technology early November. And he was suffering from a hole in the ventricle. The traditional process to be very complex. He said Professor Acar “system has helped us a lot.”
He underwent a six then the same process as a child treated in the ninth of the problem of communication between Ozninat heart.
He explained Professor “Child 72-hour stay in the hospital and come out without any scars.”