Adult congenital heart disease represents a growing population with specific complications related to individual lesions and prior surgical repairs.
Alerts clinicians to rising adult congenital heart disease burden with lesion-specific risks; leaves open optimal individualized strategies.
Adult congenital heart disease represents a growing population of patients. Many patients survive to adulthood and lead functional, productive lives. In fact, there are more adults living with congenital heart disease than pediatric patients. Many adult patients will have had prior surgical repair as children. However, some patients present in adulthood with a new diagnosis of congenital heart disease. Furthermore, there are a variety of complications associated with each individual congenital lesion and specific surgical repair procedure.
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