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Implantation of Total Artificial Heart in Congenital Heart Disease
Published on: July 18, 2014
Advances in interventional and hybrid therapy in neonatal congenital heart disease
Dietmar Schranz1, Ina Michel-Behnke
1Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Pediatric Heart Center, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany.
Abstract:
In addition to the considerable surgical advances in treating congenital heart diseases, hybrid and transcatheter therapies have become a cornerstone of neonatal cardiology within the last decade. Approaches to the care of cyanotic newborns with congenital heart disease focused on manipulations of the inter-atrial septum, right ventricular outflow tract obstructions, and on the arterial duct as the source for pulmonary blood flow. Currently, fewer interventional procedures are used in newborns and small infants to treat excessive pulmonary blood flow caused by shunt lesions, but transcatheter techniques and hybrid strategies have been developed to treat newborns suffering from inadequate systemic perfusion. However, transcatheter techniques are still not available to treat failing systemic ventricles without obvious structural disorders of the myocardium or dilated cardiomyopathies in newborns and infancy, despite new surgical-interventional strategies are already developed to avoid or to delay early heart transplantation. In conclusion, material and technical improvements have enabled transcatheter techniques to replace medical-based therapies to solve structurally dependent cardiovascular diseases. However, evidence-based and long-term follow-up data are required.
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