Toulouse. A world first at the CHU on heart defects in young children
By Anthony Assemat
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The Toulouse University Hospital is used to technological prowess and medical advances. The good results in the various rankings prove it, in particular. The latest innovation is not insignificant since it is a world first!
A miniaturized 3D probe suitable for children
Indeed, the pediatric cardiology teams at the children’s hospital now have a miniaturized 3D probe for performing transesophageal ultrasounds on young children. “The Toulouse University Hospital is the very first center to use this innovative device which improves the management of heart defects”, indicating the Toulouse hospitals.
For children over 5kg
Heart defects affected 8 children out of 1000 births in France but 3D transesophageal ultrasound was not possible for small children (and possible for adults only since 2006).
“This new miniaturized 3D probe makes it possible to monitor surgical operations or by treatment of the malformation by the vessels and to make an accurate assessment of the repaired heart after surgery. This new 3D probe is suitable for children weighing more than 5kg, offering a majority of children the possibility of benefiting from it while the probes did not allow the examination to be carried out on patients under 35 kg”.
A technique used in early September 2022
This technology was used for the first time, in Toulouse, at the beginning of September 2022. Four children improved on this technique used for the first time in the world in the Pink City.
Every year in Occitania, 400 children have to undergo heart surgery.
>> Example of use of this 3D probe by the Toulouse University Hospital teams <
A new laser system at the Clinique Croix du Sud
The Toulouse healthcare system, whether public or private, is at the forefront. The other example comes from the Croix du Sud clinic in Quint-Fonsegrives. Establishment well referenced in the management of urinary stones and urology in general, the clinic in the east of Toulouse recently acquired a second laser capable of pulverizing stones more finely and more quickly than other existing systems.
A technology at the service of a specific course of care: “SOS Urinary Stones” intended to treat urinary stones as quickly as possible.
According to the 2021 list of hospitals and clinics published by the magazine “Le Point”, the Toulouse agglomeration clinic was in 2nd national position for the management of urinary stones.
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