Catheter Interventions in Congenital Heart Disease - Hot Topics 2013

Abstract

Due to its less invasiveness, its widespread availability, and its favorable outcome results, transcatheter interventions have established as a serious alternative to surgery and thereby as a cornerstone in the treatment of congenital heart disease (CHD). The hot topics in this field having been discussed at specific meetings or having been published in 2012/2013 reflect their diversity; they range from new imaging modalities during the procedure to modified indications and approaches for established procedures, and to early results from novel implants. This is an individual selection of newsworthy actual issues: Bibliography: [1] Berman DP, Khan DM, Gutierrez Y, Zahn EM. The use of three-dimensional rotational angiography to assess the pulmonary circulation following cavo-pulmonary connection in patients with single ventricle. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 2012;80(6):922–930 [2] Boshoff DE, Cools BL, Heying R, et al. Off-label use of percutaneous pulmonary valved stents in the right ventricular outflow tract: time to rewrite the label? Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 2013;81(6):987–995 [3] Soderberg B et al.: Septal defect closure using a device with biodegradable framework: chronic results in a swine model. Presented at EuroPCR 21–24 May, 2013 in Paris. EuroIntervention Abstracts; 2013. [4] Reinhardt Z, De Giovanni J, Stickley J, et al. Catheter interventions in the staged management of hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Cardiol Young 2013;8:1–8 [5] Carroll JD, Saver JL, Thaler DE, et al; RESPECT Investigators. Closure of patent foramen ovale versus medical therapy after cryptogenic stroke. N Engl J Med 2013;368(12):1092–1100