Fetal and Hybrid Procedures in Congenital Heart Diseases
This book is an ideal, up-to-date guide to the application of fetal interventions and hybrid procedures, in which the surgeon and the interventional cardiologist work together, for the treatment of congenital heart diseases at a very early stage when dise
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Fetal and Hybrid Procedures in Congenital Heart Diseases
Gianfranco Butera • John Cheatham Carlos A.C. Pedra • Dietmar Schranz Gerald Tulzer Editors
Fetal and Hybrid Procedures in Congenital Heart Diseases
Editors Gianfranco Butera IRCCS Policlinico San Donato San Donato Milanese Italy John Cheatham Pediatric Cardiology Nationwide Children's Hospital Columbus, Ohio USA
Dietmar Schranz Justus Liebig University Hospital Giessen Hessen Germany Gerald Tulzer Kepler University Hospital Linz Austria
Carlos A.C. Pedra Hospital do Coraçao Instituto D. Pazzanese de Cardiolog Sao Paulo Brazil
ISBN 978-3-319-40086-0 ISBN 978-3-319-40088-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-40088-4
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Preface
The field of congenital heart disease has dramatically changed over the past years as a consequence of significant advances in imaging, understanding of disease mechanisms, and treatments through surgical and/or transcatheter techniques. Among all, two fields have had interesting and significant evolutions: the development of fetal transcatheter treatments and the hybrid approach to therapy of congenital heart disease. The idea of performing a therapy during fetal life has the aim to modify the natural history of some congenital heart diseases as aortic or pulmonary stenosis and the restrictive interatrial septum. The development of these techniques has opened new hopes. However, there are still many debated issues. All these aspects are developed throughout the book by world-renowned experts in the field. The hybrid concept refers to the effort of joining the knowledge and the skills from both the interventionalists and the surgeons in order to minimize risks and optimize results. Further
