Chapter 564 Dancing Pulmonary Artery?

It wasn't hard to find someone to help convince Uncle Karen. Early the next morning, Elder Erwin and the Bald Bishop arrived together. Captain Cullen specially asked for leave and sat in the hospital consulting room, listening to Gretel's explanation with them:

"Baby Avril's disease, according to my judgment, is because the natural duct between the aorta and pulmonary artery does not close. This duct is a normal blood flow channel during the fetal period. After birth, it will close under normal circumstances..."

He used [Silent Phantom] to outline the heart, lungs, systemic circulation, and pulmonary circulation, and explained it eloquently. When he left, he had just started practicing this first-level magic, and it was very awkward to use; but now, he had it at his fingertips without any effort at all.

The heart is shown in cross-section, with the left atrium, left ventricle, right atrium, and right ventricle connected to different blood vessels. With every beat of the heart, illusory blood continues to flow and circulate, and even the arteries contract and relax.

The expansion of the valves and the changes in color of the venous and arterial blood are clearly visible.

In order to facilitate understanding and memory, Gretel even labeled each blood vessel with a phantom name.

He paused and looked around at the audience before him. On the left, the bald bishop’s eyes were shining and his body was leaning forward slightly. My eyes were fixed on that phantom, looking at it like that, I just wanted to swallow it in one gulp;

On the right side, Elder Erwin's white beard was waving, looking at the disciple who had been away for four years, smiling slightly. On the old face, every wrinkle writes the great comfort of old age;

Uncle Karen and Aunt Erin sat side by side, holding their little daughter in the middle, staring nervously and anxiously at the image in the air. They didn't even have time to be a little surprised at the magic.

Grete waited for a while, waiting for expressions of "understanding" and "already understood" to appear on the faces of the teacher and the bald bishop. With a slight wave of his hand, he added a catheter between the aorta and pulmonary artery, changed the direction of blood flow, and continued:

"If this catheter is not closed, part of the blood ejected from the left ventricle and flowing into the aorta will directly flow into the pulmonary artery, causing an increase in pulmonary circulation blood flow and an increase in pulmonary artery pressure."

Erwin and the bald bishop both expressed their understanding. The faces of Uncle Karen and Aunt Eileen were still blank, as if they had heard every word and were completely incomprehensible together. Grete sighed secretly, commanded the changes of the phantom, and emphasized the tone:

"If things go on like this, when the pressure in the pulmonary artery is equal to or even exceeds the aorta, it will be very difficult for the right ventricle to eject blood into the lungs, and it will take all your strength to do it. Over time, it will cause right heart failure. Even... the patient will die. .”

Aunt Eileen exclaimed slightly and hugged her daughter tightly. Captain Cullen's face was heavy, Elder Erwin coughed and said slowly:

"Now that you're back, you must have an idea?"

"Yes." The phantom in Grete's hand changed again, and he explained the treatment method in detail. Finally, he took out the experimental records from the space bag and distributed them to the two elders:

"I have conducted hundreds of animal experiments in Nevis. In the last few batches, the treatments have been quite successful, and 100% of the experimental animals survived."

Elder Erwin and the bald bishop, one on each side, lowered their heads to read. From time to time, look up at the light and shadow in front of you and compare it with the descriptions in the experimental records.

The format and wording of these experimental records are all unfamiliar. It is not impossible to understand them completely, but it still requires all your efforts. For a time, the two high-level therapists were fully focused and had no time to deal with the patients and their families.

Captain Cullen hugged his daughter tightly and said nothing. Aunt Eileen's eyes flashed with tears, and she stroked her daughter's hair and face from time to time, as if she was about to lose her in the next moment.

Avril Lavigne leaned against her parents obediently. A ten-year-old girl can already understand topics such as life and death. She pressed her small palm on the back of her mother's hand, raised her head, and said in a clear voice:

"Dad, Mom, let Brother Gretel cure me. Brother Gretel must have come back from all this way to cure me, not to harm me, right?"

The consulting room was quiet for a while. Captain Karen tightened his arms and hugged his daughter, almost speechless. The bald bishop raised his head from the experimental record, stared into Gretel's eyes, and said in a deep voice:

"Are you sure? Are you sure it's the disease you mentioned?"

"I'm sixty-seven percent sure." Grete responded: "To be specific, detailed examination is still needed to make a clear diagnosis."

"Then check it! Check it for us!"

Gretel was prepared. The electrocardiogram has already been done, there is no need to do it again; he took out the [Endless Ink Pen], held it with the mage's hand, and walked around behind Avril. Under the illusory light of [Detection Magic], he slightly squinted his eyes and observed carefully:

"Well, it's obvious hilar chorea..."

"where?"

One on the left and one on the right, two heads came over at the same time. Gretel took a deep breath, pointed to little Avril's chest, and explained to Elder Erwin and the bald bishop:

"This is the pulmonary artery. Did you see that every time the heart beats, the pulmonary artery will tremble violently, so much that it looks like it is swinging - we call it hilar chorea. Normal people will not have such symptoms, Uncle Karen, You also stand up and show the teacher and the bishop..."

Elder Erwin inserted his oak staff back, and [Detection Magic] turned on again. Two real-time X-ray shadows were displayed side by side, and the [Silent Phantom] kept flowing. Gretel was giving instructions and explanations:

"When the heart beats, the blood is ejected from the left atrium into the aorta, and the intensity is really strong. A large amount of blood is ejected, and if part of it runs to the pulmonary artery, the pulmonary artery will bear undue pressure and it will vibrate violently. It seems, That’s what it’s like…”

This principle is not difficult to understand. The two elders compared back and forth and finally nodded:

"Well, it seems you were right."

Gretel didn't dare to relax. He repeatedly confirmed that the heart shadow was enlarged, the aortic node was protruding, the left ventricle was enlarged, and the pulmonary blood was increasing, and then he stopped the [Detection Magic]. After the X-ray, I still need to do an echocardiogram...

This time, Gretel didn't let the teacher or the bald bishop get involved. He rolled up his sleeves, performed the ultrasound with one hand, and pressed the gold box with the other. After reaching level six, one cast of the spell finally didn't drain most of his mental energy, thank God.

Half a minute later, the gold box spit out the chip, and Grete triggered the image again and began to explain. Where is the patent duct, where is the abnormal blood flow signal. Unfortunately, echocardiograms are much more difficult to understand than plain X-rays. He was covered in sweat while talking, and only got some looks that seemed to understand.

"Well... the last thing we need to do is to let the spirit of the contract go deep into the body and see it in real time..."

Illusive little black and white snakes rise from the oak staff. Elder Erwin glanced at it and immediately smiled happily:

"The Totem Spirit of the North! This is a good thing. When I went there in the early years, I couldn't get one... Not bad, not bad, better than me!"

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(Scroll back to see the plain chest X-ray)