title: When to operate on the child with congenital heart disease.
abstract: This article outlines, under various hemodynamic categories, the multiple considerations required in considering a patient for surgery for congenital heart disease.
mesh_terms: D001017:Aortic Coarctation / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004374:Ductus Arteriosus, Patent / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006343:Heart Septal Defects / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000150:complications; D013154:Spleen / Q000002:abnormalities; D013771:Tetralogy of Fallot / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D014188:Transposition of Great Vessels / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery