Wuhan Evening News (Correspondent Li Han) A woman in her sixties was found to have a hernia, but she didn't take it seriously. Unexpectedly, she suddenly had difficulty breathing during the Spring Festival holiday. She was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment. lung.
After surgery and ICU treatment, he was out of danger.
62-year-old Ms. Guo lives in Yangluo. A hernia was found in the left diaphragm 10 years ago, and she has not been actively treated.
On the second day of the Lunar New Year this year, Ms. Guo was suddenly out of breath after getting up, and her breathing difficulties became more and more serious. Her family immediately dialed 120 to take her to Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University.
When she arrived at the emergency ward of the hospital, Ms. Guo was already confused, her blood oxygen saturation plummeted, and her vital signs were extremely unstable.
The examination revealed that her entire stomach, colon and other internal organs "slipped" into the chest cavity through the hernia hole of the right diaphragmatic hernia, compressing the right lung to only one sixth.
After urgent discussions and preoperative preparations by many experts from the Department of Thoracic Surgery, the team of Director Hu Weidong of the Department of Thoracic Surgery performed surgery on Ms. Guo.
After 9 hours of surgery, the "big shift" of the gastrointestinal tract was carefully repositioned, and the hole in the diaphragm was completely closed.
After the operation, Ms. Guo was sent to the ICU for anti-shock and anti-infection treatment.
On February 14, Ms. Guo recovered and was discharged from the hospital.
Hu Weidong said that factors such as advanced age, obesity, trauma, etc., may lead to the weakness or defect of the human diaphragm. The abdominal organs are squeezed into the chest cavity through the weak part of the diaphragm that separates the thoracic cavity and the abdominal cavity, resulting in severe compression of the lungs, resulting in cardiopulmonary dysfunction, causing cardiac and pulmonary dysfunction. Danger to life.
"Some citizens who found hernias did not pay attention to hernias due to shyness and fear of surgery. The originally uncomplicated situation has become a difficult and high-risk operation." Hu Weidong reminded that hernias are like holes in clothes. Once discovered It must be repaired immediately, otherwise it will only get bigger and harder to repair, and even lead to acute complications that are life-threatening.