[Main indications of cardiac surgery and interventional catheterisation in pediatric cardiac diseases].
Although prospective randomized studies about congenital heart diseases in children are virtually non existent, partly due to methodological difficulties related to the scarcity and the heterogeneity of patients with these rare diseases, general agreement has been reached concerning the indications for treating, and thus approaches to the management of most congenital heart diseases do not differ significantly between centres. Advances in surgical techniques are tremendous, allowing repair of complex diseases in younger and younger children with constantly improving survival. However, long-term follow-up of these seemingly cured survivors of heart surgery within infancy is a crucial point.
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Service de cardiologie pédiatrique, hôpital de la Mère et de l'Enfant, 44000 Nantes. veronique.gournay@chu-nantes.fr
D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male