title: [The current state and future of care of patients with congenital heart defects].
abstract: Care of patients with congenital heart diseases in Czech Republic does not have only important history, falling to the prewar period, but especially systematic and long-term work with excellent results in pediatric patients. With improvements in the care of these patients also improves their survival with the need for continuous care in adulthood including reoperation, catheter ablations incisional tachycardias and other specialized procedures in difficult heart morphology. The article is a reflection and an appeal to all responsible professionals, organizers and payers of health care, how to proceed and provide specialized training, continuity of care for these patients, including proposed organizational changes and outlines the need for further development in this important medical field.
authors.forename: Miloš
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Táborský
authors.forename: Jana
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Popelová
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nečasová
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Janoušek
authors.forename: Štěpán
authors.initials: Š
authors.lastname: Černý
authors.forename: Petr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Němec
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pirk
authors.forename: Milan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Šamánek
mesh_terms: D002309:Cardiology / Q000639:trends*; D018153:Czech Republic; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000639:trends*; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans
keywords: centers of specialized care - congenital heart diseases - education.