Congenital Heart Disease Surgery
Congenital Heart Disease (CHD), also known as congenital heart defect, is a problem with the structures of the heart or blood vessels that occur before birth. The defects result when the walls of the heart, the valves of the heart, and the arteries and veins near the heart, don’t develop normally before birth. These defects may or may not have a disruptive effect on a person’s circulatory system. If they do, blood flow can slow down, go in the wrong direction or to the wrong place, or be blocked completely. Some of these defects are simple and may not cause problems; while others are complex or critical and may cause life-threatening complications.
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Advances in diagnosis and treatment mean most babies who once died of congenital heart disease survive well into adulthood. However, signs and symptoms of the condition can occur in adults later in life, even those who had treatment as a child. It's also possible that problems in your heart, which weren't serious enough to repair when you were a child, have worsened and now require treatment. Therefore, it is important to check with your doctor.
Some of the most common types of CHD surgery for adults include but are not limited to the following:
- Arterial switch
- Atrial Septal Defect surgery (includes transcatheter options)
- Atrial switch
- Bicuspid aortic valve disease surgery
- Fontan procedure
- Glenn Operation
- Norwood procedure
- Patch aortoplasty
- Patent ductus arteriosus surgery (includes transcatheter options)
- Resection with end-to-end anastomosis
- Subclavian flap aortoplasty
- Tetralogy of Fallot – Intracardiac repair
- Total anomalous pulmonary venous return repair
- Truncus Arteriosus repair
- Ventricular septal defect surgery (includes transcatheter options)
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