Abstract
Patients with congenital heart disease often face the prospect of long-term haemodynamic or arrhythmic complications for which lifelong follow-up in specialist adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) centres is required. We describe the case of a 25-year-old man with repaired atrioventricular septal defect who was referred to our centre after a ventricular fibrillation arrest. Serial echocardiograms in previous years had shown progressive severe left ventricular outflow obstruction, but the patient had not been operated on as he was deemed asymptomatic and reluctant to consider surgery. Management and criteria for further intervention in ACHD patients often differ from those of patients with acquired heart disease and reliance on symptoms alone is not good practice and may prove catastrophic.
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