At six months, her daughter was diagnosed with a heart defect - an atrial septal defect. Then the doctors decided to postpone the operation. All these years Masha is regularly observed and examined at the Kiev Heart Institute. The doctors did not find any deterioration in her daughter’s condition. However, at the last consultation with a cardiologist, it turned out that the hole had become larger. Need surgery. Doctors say that it can be done in the most gentle, endovascular way, without opening the chest, using a "patch" - an occluder. The operation itself will be performed according to the quota, but you have to pay for the occluder. And we do not collect the necessary amount, we are raising two children, my husband and I have barely enough salaries to live on. Please help! Taisiya Sayapina, Kyiv.
Andrei Khokhlov, head of the endovascular surgery department at the Kiev Heart Institute: “At the last examination, echocardiography showed that the atrial septal defect began to increase. Maria needs an operation to close the defect by endovascular means. "