Key result
Echocardiography serves as an essential, accessible, and reproducible non-invasive imaging method for the long-term follow-up and detection of residual lesions in adults with congenital heart disease.
Why the study?
Increasing survival has led to more adult patients with congenital heart diseases transitioning from paediatric to adult cardiology care, requiring clarification of the role of echocardiography.
This review highlights the role of echocardiography in managing the growing population of adult patients with congenital heart disease.
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Echocardiography supports evaluation of the growing adult congenital heart disease population; leaves open standardized protocols and outcome validation in adult practice.
Treatment of congenital heart diseases has significantly advanced over the last few decades. Due to the continuously increasing survival rate, there are more and more adult patients with congenital heart diseases and these patients present at the adult cardiologist from the paediatric cardiology care. The aim of the present review is to demonstrate the role of echocardiography in some significant congenital heart diseases.
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Havasi et al. (2018) conducted a review in Adult congenital heart disease. Echocardiography was evaluated. Echocardiography serves as an essential, accessible, and reproducible non-invasive imaging method for the long-term follow-up and detection of residual lesions in adults with congenital heart disease.
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