Congenital Heart Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Cardiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 1537
Special Issue Editor
Interests: pediatric cardiology; interventional cardiology; echocardiography
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Congenital heart diseases (CHD) are the most common congenital defect in live births (the incidence is around 1%). Today, about 85% of CHD patients reach adulthood. Thus, modern pediatric cardiology faces two drastically different types of patients: the neonate with an unrepaired CHD and the adult with a repaired CHD and, eventually, adult-related cardiac and extracardiac diseases.
In the first section of this Special Issue, we would like to discuss new software and hardware innovations in echocardiography, in cMRI, and in cardiac CT in the diagnostic work-up of congenital heart disease, illustrated by the leading international experts in the sector, including fetal cardiology.
In the second section, we will collect papers focused on new surgical and interventional techniques for the treatment and palliation of CHD in infancy, and new options and new devices for the correction of residual defects in adolescent and adult CHD patients.
Finally, the last section of this issue will be focused on new perspectives and future innovations aimed at improving the care of these patients, such as remote monitoring devices, 3D printing and augmented reality for counseling and interventional planning.
We hope that this Special Issue will be a useful, updated tool for modern pediatric cardiologists.
Dr. Biagio Castaldi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- congenital heart disease
- interventional cardiology
- surgery in congenital heart disease
- multimodality imaging
- echocardiography
- augmented reality
- 3D printing
- electrophysiology
