Contemporary Transcatheter Interventions in Adult Congenital Heart Disease

in 1966, William rashkind performed the first balloon atrial septostomy on a patient with transposition of the great arteries, 1 and on that fateful day, the field of congenital and pediatric interventional cardiology was born. since then, the complexity and capability of the discipline has grown explosively with the advent of balloon aortic and pulmonary valvuloplasty, 2 device closure of atrial and ventricular septal defects and patent ductus arteriosus, and the Melody transcatheter pulmonary valve solution 3 (Medtronic, inc., Minneapolis, Mn).