Congenital Heart Disease: Advances in Clinical Diagnosis and Management
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Cardiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 May 2024 | Viewed by 523
Special Issue Editor
Interests: congenital heart disease; pulmonary arterial hypertension; complexity; cyanosis
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Dear Colleagues,
In recent decades, there have been important advances in patients with congenital heart diseases that have allowed many of them to reach adulthood. In fact, currently 85% of neonates with congenital heart disease survive into adult life. These advances include genetic factors recognized as playing an important role in cardiovascular malformations, the detection of congenital heart disease using fetal echocardiography, anesthetic management, noninvasive imaging options, including cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging, cardiac computed tomography (CT), and nuclear scintigraphy, cardiovascular surgery, percutaneous interventions, intensive care, as well as improvements in pharmacotherapy. Also, the diagnosis and management of late complications in adult congenital heart disease patients is of paramount importance as residual and sequelae may progress in terms of severity with age, inducing late complications, such as arrhythmias, cardiac failure, renal and liver disease, thromboembolism, aortopathy, cyanosis, pulmonary arterial hypertension, infective endocarditis, or mental health and psychological problems due to the need to cope with stress, anxiety, or depression. In addition to this, we find that there are challenges faced by the parents of patients with congenital heart disease. The goal of this Special Issue is to provide a very contemporary and practical approach to congenital heart disease patients, from childhood to adulthood, through original research and review articles with the aim of updating the advances in clinical diagnosis and management in the field of congenital heart disease.
Dr. Efrén Martínez-Quintana
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- congenital heart disease
- fetal
- childhood
- adults
- genetic
- imaging
- surgery
- percutaneous
- complications
- psychological
