Obstructive and regurgitant cardiac lesions in adults who had childhood heart disease
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Douglas J. Schneider
Abstract
Adults with congenital heart disease can have some degree of cardiac obstruction or valve regurgitation even after repair or intervention. Because many such patients will benefit from medical therapy, catheter intervention, or surgery as adults, long-term follow-up with coordination of care between primary care providers and adult congenital heart disease specialists is important. In this review, left ventricular outflow tract obstruction, aortic valve regurgitation, coarctation of the aorta, mitral valve stenosis, mitral valve regurgitation, tricuspid stenosis, tricuspid valve regurgitation, pulmonary stenosis, and pulmonary regurgitation will be discussed from the perspective of childhood or adolescent cardiac lesion entering adulthood and the interventions and management.
©2010 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin New York
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Articles in the same Issue
- Editorial
- Adults with childhood illness
- Reviews
- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Epidemiology, assessment, and treatment among children, adolescents, and adults
- Caring for adults with cystic fibrosis
- Childhood asthma in adults
- Cyanotic congenital heart defects in adult patients
- Obstructive and regurgitant cardiac lesions in adults who had childhood heart disease
- Adults with left-to-right cardiac shunts and with shunts treated in childhood
- Transition of pediatric endocrine patients to adult care
- Adolescents and adults with inborn errors of metabolism
- Adults who had kidney disease in childhood
- Adult survivors of childhood cancer
- Adults with genetic syndromes
- Adult considerations of pediatric urologic care
- Adult patients with childhood anemias
- Disabled women and reproductive healthcare in the United States
- Children with allergic disease as adults
- Adults with congenital bleeding disorders
- Aging with intellectual disability. Current health issues
- Short Communication
- Transition from pediatric to adult care: social and family issues
