are there any factors that can affect their recovery?
2007-10-19 17:28:32 · 4 answers · asked by chie 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Heart Diseases
Age is a factor. Health going into surgery. But really even with very old patients (over 80 yrs) the survival rate is quite high.
2007-10-19 17:34:36 · answer #1 · answered by CB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My dear. Hmmm...let's see. Septal Myectomy. That means 'cutting a hole in a muscle that is also a wall.' Are your referring to the heart? The only body septums I know of are the nasal septum, the septums between both upper and lower ventricals of the heart, and the brain. And being that the nasal and the brain ones have no muscle, that leaves the heart. No, actually the brain doesn't have an actual septum.
Ok...why would any person intensionally place a hole in either septum of the chambers of the heart? This would compromise entirely the purpose of those septal walls. In fact, occasionally a child is born with a septal defect and is now operated on in those early days of life to close that septal hole.
You have got me on this one.
Have a nice journey!
2007-10-20 00:39:16 · answer #2 · answered by Old School 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had a 25 yr old pt have a myomectomy. She did very well and I could not believe the difference in her breathing from before and after the surgery. The mass was so big, we were afraid it was going to cut off her blood supply completely
to her pulmonary vessels.
I never seen anything like it.
Remarkable recovery. I think it was about as big as a apple.
I also have to say with a skilled surgeon, the recovery rate is very high, but this is not the kind of surgery you want to do in the middle of no where in a small town hospital.
2007-10-20 02:38:08 · answer #3 · answered by happydawg 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe you are talking about removing a tumor from the septum of the heart? I work in an ICU- and care for heart surgery patients. I just took care of an 80 year old man who had a tumor removed from his atria. He is doing well. I think if you have a good surgeon you should be fine. Of course, it also depends on any other health issues the person may have. If a person's heart is already damaged from previous heart attack, or is weak from heart disease etc, I'm sure the survival rate goes down a bit. Good heart surgeons won't preform the operation if they don't think the person has a relatively decent chance for survival.
2007-10-20 01:07:00 · answer #4 · answered by Penny P 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋