Technology in Cardiovascular Treatment

Cardiovascular disease is one of the serious diseases and has a high risk of death in the world today. Each year in the world, there are about 20 million people die of cardiovascular disease. At present with the advancement of modern medical, cardiac patients use various methods for treatment.

Treatment of heart disease by stem cell therapy

This treatment is applied to the heart muscle damage cannot be restored, especially cardiomyopathy of the elderly have been the myocardial infarction. This therapy offers great hope for many patients that is angioplasty surgery, but still vascular occlusion. Especially with those younger patients and patients without diabetes by high-quality stem cells than other patients, it will be magical.

Stem cells can transform into different cell types and replace cells damaged or aging cells. Normally, stem cells taken from bone marrow. Through the injection of stem cells into the arteries and come to the patient’s heart. Here, stem cells can carry out repair and regenerate new heart muscle cells, promote heart forming new blood vessel system. Moreover, it can help improve the blood supply to the heart, increasing circulatory function, increases excretion functions. Stem cells also can melt the fat forms on arterial walls, make arteries always smooth and improve atherosclerosis. The doctor can use it to reduce the recurrence of acute heart disease and achieve high efficiency of the treatment. Stem cells are effective in the treatment of heart disease due to ischemia in asymptomatic (hidden coronary artery disease), angina, heart attacks, ischemic heart failure (HF) and prevent sudden death.

Drug-coated stents with absorbable frame (Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold)

In the treatment of coronary artery disease, doctors usually conduct angioplasty and placing a metal mesh called stent fitted drugs. It will help to open up the artery, helps blood flow through narrowed arteries clogged easily. But over time, blood clots can form inside the stent, so patients must take anticoagulants for a long time, even a lifetime. Currently, there is a new type of stent is coated stent drug with absorbable frame. It will return the natural coronary after temporarily shelving until coronary endothelium was complete.

That is, after a certain time to be implanted coronary heart, a stent with nature is capable of absorbable polymers has elasticity, restructuring coronary, soft frame therefor ease blood circulated in angle, reduce the response of blood vessels at the beginning and the end of stents. Recent studies show that the drug-coated stent with absorbable frame effective equivalent drug-coated metal stents. However, it is not really suitable for coronary artery disease cases more complex. But scientists hope that with the advancement of medical technology, the drug-coated stent with absorbable frame will replace metal stents in the future.

Cardiovascular Surgery Minimally Invasive

With the strong development of laparoscopic surgery in other disciplines along with the advancement of anesthesia and circulation outside the body, the minimally invasive approach is increasingly common in cardiovascular surgery. To replace the long line in front of chest surgery, cardiac surgeons use small open roads with an average length of 5 cm in the right chest. Or only open half breastbone rather than the entire breastbone as before. Currently, the support of the endoscopic equipment and instruments are specially designed to work in conditions of the small incision. Therefore doctors can perform surgery safely such as classic incision between breastbone that time not much more prolonged surgery. This surgical approach provides benefits such as smaller surgical scars, reduce the risk of infection, reduce the pain, reduced blood loss, shorter recovery time,…

The development of technology in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases has helped give patients more hope and opportunity to cure. In the future, people with heart disease can expect the new method of treatments.

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