Advances in Diagnosis and Management of Congenital Heart Defects
A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Pediatric Cardiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 March 2024) | Viewed by 2143
Special Issue Editor
Interests: congenital heart disease; pediatric cardiology; tricuspid atresia; physiologically advantageous ventricular septal defect; interventional pediatric cardiology; neonatal cardioloy; echocardiography
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
During the last five decades, a number of advances in the diagnosis and management of congenital heart defects (CHDs) have occurred: detection of CHD by fetal ultrasound; early identification of newborn babies with critical heart disease through conventional methods as well as by pulse oximetry screening; rapid transportation of identified babies to tertiary care facilities; accessibility to exceedingly sensitive non-invasive diagnostic methods, namely, echocardiography along with Doppler technology, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and computed tomography (CT); developments in percutaneous, catheter-based therapy; advances in anesthesia for CHD patients; application of intricate surgical techniques to address complex CHDs; and remarkable advances in post-operative care lead to positive results so that a large proportion of babies born with CHD are surviving and reaching adulthood.
A Special Issue on “Advances in Diagnosis and Management of Congenital Heart Defects” is being organized by the journal Children to discuss these advances. We invite investigators to contribute original research articles as well as review articles that will stimulate the continuing efforts to improve our understanding in this challenging field.
Prof. Dr. P. Syamasundar Rao
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- congenital heart defects
- pediatric cardiology
- recent advances
- echocadiography
- magnetic resonance imaging
- computed tomography
- pediatric cardiac surgery
- transcatheter interventional procedures
