title: Advances in congenital heart surgery.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We provide an overview of the past year's literature on congenital heart surgery.
  
  
  RESULTS
  This review focuses on selected disease entities, operative techniques, perioperative management strategies, and quality of care.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Congenital heart surgery is an evolving field.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239, USA. welkek@ohsu.edu
authors.forename: Karl F
authors.initials: KF
authors.lastname: Welke
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Komanapalli
authors.forename: Irving
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Ross M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Ungerleider
mesh_terms: D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D002315:Cardiopulmonary Bypass; D002648:Child; D004314:Down Syndrome / Q000150:complications; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D016896:Treatment Outcome