Heart Diseases in Children

Dear Colleagues,

Congenital heart disease (CHD) remains the most common congenital malformation in children, with an incidence of around 1% in live born children. Despite significant advancements in technology and surgical techniques and an improvement in outcomes, CHDs are still associated with high mortality and co-morbidities. The Special Issue on ‘Heart diseases in children’ is aimed at inviting leading experts in the field to share their knowledge, experience and expertise. We are seeking manuscripts on a wide range of topics such as antenatal diagnosis of CHDs, state-of-the-art perinatal management of CHDs, balancing circulation in children with CHDs, advanced interventional pediatric cardiology, improving peri-operative and long-term outcomes in children with CHDs and beyond. The issue will allow readers to refer to these articles to enhance their knowledge and apply it in clinical practice for (1) improving the early recognition and stabilization of children with CHDs pre-operatively, (2) improving the peri-operative management of CHDs and (3) the post-operative management of CHDs, and (4) improving outcomes in children with CHDs.
Topics of interest include:

1. Improving the antenatal diagnosis of congenital heart defects.
2. The perinatal management of infants with critical congenital heart defects.
3. The balancing of circulation in univentricular physiology.
4. Advances in interventional pediatric cardiology.
5. Transcatheter closure of patent ductus arteriosus in extremely preterm infants—is surgical ligation a thing of the past?
6. Improving long-term outcomes in children with CHDs.
7. Advances in the management of heart failure in children with CHDs.
8. The early recognition and management of pulmonary hypertension in CHDs.

Dr. Yogen Singh
Dr. Cecile Tissot
Guest Editors

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• critical congenital heart defects
• antenatal diagnosis
• perinatal management
• univertricular physiology
• outcomes
• heart failure
• pulmonary hypertension