On May 28, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health said that fetal intervention experts from Tu Du Hospital coordinated with a cardiovascular intervention specialist from Children's Hospital 1 to successfully intervene in a case of complex congenital heart disease in a 22-week fetus of a Singaporean mother.
This is a case of a fetus with the disease of no major valve opening, a rare form of congenital heart disease. After the discovery, doctors at KK Women's and Children's Hospital (Singapore) assessed that the fetus was at high risk of death in the uterus and introduced the patient to Ho Chi Minh City for treatment.
The mother who went to Children's Hospital 1 was assessed to have congenital heart abnormalities in the fetus, as assessed by Singaporean doctors. After that, the team of fetal intervention and congenital heart intervention doctors from Children's Hospital 1 and Tu Du Hospital consulted remotely with leading experts from Australia and France. All agreed to diagnose and need early intervention to save the fetus.
This is the 9th intervention in Ho Chi Minh City, but it is considered the most difficult because the fetus is still very young (22 weeks old, weighing 600 grams) along with a particularly serious medical condition. The team conducted the first intervention on May 22 but were unsuccessful.
On May 28, the second intervention was successfully performed. Recorded through fetal ultrasound, blood flow has returned to the aorta valve after the intervention.
According to the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health, a leading hospital in Singapore that proactively introduces patients to Ho Chi Minh City for treatment is not only a belief in its professional capacity but also a recognition by the ASEAN region for its high technical expertise in the field of obstetrics and gynecology in Vietnam.
This is an important milestone in the development journey of fetal medicine and specialized medicine in Ho Chi Minh City. At the same time, it affirmed its determination to develop into a specialized medical center of the Southeast Asian region of the Ho Chi Minh City health sector.
This success is the result of a methodical investment process in the right direction, the result of close coordination between specialties of the two end-line hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City.
