Congenital heart disease ventricular septal defect 4-5mm need surgery

Congenital heart disease ventricular septal defect 4-5mm whether need surgery should be combined with the specific situation analysis.

Ventricular septal defect is a common congenital heart disease, 4-5mm ventricular septal defect usually belongs to the medium-sized defect. For the treatment of this disease, mainly depends on the patient's specific condition and symptoms. Generally speaking, for patients with mild symptoms, can temporarily not surgery, conservative treatment, can follow the doctor's advice to choose diuretics, angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors and other drugs to improve heart function, alleviate related symptoms. However, in patients with severe symptoms, pulmonary hypertension, or impaired cardiac function, conservative treatment generally does not work well, and surgical treatment may be necessary in such cases, mainly including thoracotomy and minimally invasive surgery.