Doctors from the Da Nang General Hospital have successfully saved a 25-year-old local female patient who had a ruptured sinus of Valsalva in her right atrium. The intervention has been conducted successfully by passing a catheter through the right ventricle into the right atrium.  In the past, the treatment of this uncommon coronary heart disease involved cardiovascular surgery.

The patient had been admitted to the hospital with sharp and abrupt chest pains.  With the help of a CT scan, doctors detected the problem and made great efforts to deal with the rupture.  Now the patient’s chest pains have been relieved and she has regained haemodynamic stability.  She remains under treatment in the Surgery and Cardiovascular Interventions Ward of the hospital.

Earlier, a 21-year-old male student from the city’s University of Technology had also been taken to the hospital showing symptoms of heart disease, including acute heart failure and a pulmonary edema.  The doctors also used the above-mentioned treatment to save the life of this patient who has now been discharged from the hospital 10 days after his successful operation.