Diagnosis and Management of Adult Congenital Heart Disease

Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) gives unrestricted access to the heart and great vessels noninvasively and without ionizing radiation. It can provide biventricular functional assessment, flow measurement, myocardial viability assessment, angiography, and more, and is therefore recommended for long-term follow-up in…

Echocardiography

Most patients with congenital heart lesions are diagnosed in infancy or childhood and then undergo palliative and/or reparative surgery. Despite ongoing advances in cardiac surgery and intervention, residual anatomic and hemodynamic abnormalities remain common among such individuals. A large proportion…

Clinical Assessment

† Deceased. Congenital malformations of the heart, by definition, originate in the embryo, then evolve during gestation, and change considerably during the course of extrauterine life. Before World War II, these malformations were regarded as hopeless futilities. Abbott was advised…

Cardiac Morphology and Nomenclature

The care of adults with congenital heart malformations has evolved into a specialty in its own right. The malformations are conceived by the general cardiologist as extremely complex, requiring a sound knowledge of embryologic development for their appreciation. The defects…