title: [Congenita heart disease--is the procedure always unequivocal?].
abstract: Excellent results of interventional treatment of congenital cardiac defects in childhood resulted in substantial increment of adult population with these diseases. Usually patients lead normal life, undertake work and start a family. Nonetheless vast majority of them still require regular cardiological check-up due to residual lesions, remote sequelae of the intervention or counselling in case of other health problems. Particular attention should be paid on pregnant women with congenital heart disease. As an invasive treatment does not fully normalize morphology and haemodynamics of the heart one has to assess to what extent physiological changes of the cardiovascular system secondary to the pregnancy, delivery and childbed may impact heart disease. The paper summarizes current recommendations associated with these issues.
authors.forename: Piotr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hoffman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011249:Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*