title: Common congenital heart disorders in adults: percutaneous therapeutic procedures.
abstract: The population of adults with unrepaired, palliated, and repaired congenital heart disease is growing. Surgical intervention, once the mainstay of palliative and corrective therapy, has been supplanted in many instances by less invasive trans-catheter techniques. Hybrid procedures involving the symbiotic use of surgical and trans-catheter techniques are increasingly utilized in patients with complex lesions. This article summarizes some of the currently applied trans-catheter interventional techniques for pulmonary stenosis, ASD, VSD, and coarctation of the aorta.
authors.forename: Jamil
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Aboulhosn
authors.forename: Daniel S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Levi
authors.forename: John S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Child
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / Q000295:instrumentation*; D001017:Aortic Coarctation / Q000628:therapy; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000628:therapy; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011666:Pulmonary Valve Stenosis / Q000628:therapy; D014463:Ultrasonography