title: Fetal surgery for cardiac lesions.
abstract: Intrauterine dilation of critical fetal aortic stenosis (AS) and pulmonary stenosis or atresia has the potential to change the natural course of these congenital heart defects preventing progression to a single ventricle circulation. This article reviews the world experience in fetal cardiac interventions. In carefully selected cases, fetal cardiac surgery can reverse end-stage heart failure and can provide biventricular outcome postnatally in about two thirds of the cases with successful interventions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Prenatal Medicine, Women's and Children's Hospital Linz, Linz, Austria. wolfgang.arzt@gespag.at
authors.forename: Wolfgang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Arzt
authors.forename: Gerald
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Tulzer
mesh_terms: D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D005332:Fetoscopy / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods*; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D011247:Pregnancy; D016896:Treatment Outcome