Cardiac Shunt- treatment plans?

[hennipenni]

My mum has just been diagnosed with a cardiac shunt- she’s not sure if it’s left to right or visa versa etc. Any idea with regards treatment for it? She doesn’t have an appointment with her consultant for a couple of weeks but I’d understandably worried.

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DH had one put in a few years ago. The shunt is what they put in to widen narrowed arteries. It's done under a local anaesthetic, it's slid into position and then inflated after it reaches the correct position. You can usually go home afterwards and need to rest for a few days. The post operative treatment is medication for about 6 months.

Apart from check ups that's it.

If I made the op sound scary it's not, my needle phobic husband was fine with it, and he was fascinated because he could watch the op as it was carried out.

DH was due to have this done last year and it was pretty straight forward, except his was worse case and they couldn’t do it so taken to London hospital for a bypass 4 wks later. Tbh all heart surgery is scary but they are routine these days, and they really do know what they’re doing x

Thank you for your replies, did both your DHs have stents put in? I believe this isn’t what my mum is needing as she doesn’t have narrowed arteries but appears to have a hole between two ventricles?