Document Type
Article
Department
Cardiothoracic Surgery
Abstract
In many parts of the world, mostly low- and middle-income countries, timely diagnosis and repair of congenital heart diseases (CHDs) is not feasible for a variety of reasons. In these regions, economic growth has enabled the development of cardiac units that manage patients with CHD presenting later than would be ideal, often after the window for early stabilisation - transposition of the great arteries, coarctation of the aorta - or for lower-risk surgery in infancy - left-to-right shunts or cyanotic conditions. As a result, patients may have suffered organ dysfunction, manifest signs of pulmonary vascular disease, or the sequelae of profound cyanosis and polycythaemia. Late presentation poses unique clinical and ethical challenges in decision making regarding operability or surgical candidacy, surgical strategy, and perioperative intensive care management.
Publication (Name of Journal)
Cardiology in the young.
Recommended Citation
Iyer, P. U.,
Moreno,, G. E.,
Caneo, L. F.,
Faiz, T.,
Shekerdemian, L. S.,
Iye, K. s.
(2017). Management of late presentation congenital heart disease. Cardiology in the young., 27(S6), S31-S39.
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