Their son is suffering from pulmonary hypertension. This is where the blood flow that leaves the right side of the heart has increased resistance. The blood vessels of the lungs have and increased amount of muscled in the walls. This makes the right ventricle work harder to pump blood to the lungs. Their sons ventricular septal defect is worsening the affects of the pulmonary hypertension. Ventricular septal defect is where there is a small opening in the septum of the heart. This means that unoxygenated blood and oxygenated is mixing in the heart. This causes the heart to work harder to pump blood to the lungs. This is caused from birth and cannot be
Their son is suffering from pulmonary hypertension. This is where the blood flow that leaves the right side of the heart has increased resistance. The blood vessels of the lungs have and increased amount of muscled in the walls. This makes the right ventricle work harder to pump blood to the lungs. Their sons ventricular septal defect is worsening the affects of the pulmonary hypertension. Ventricular septal defect is where there is a small opening in the septum of the heart. This means that unoxygenated blood and oxygenated is mixing in the heart. This causes the heart to work harder to pump blood to the lungs. This is caused from birth and cannot be