Diagnosis and treatment of adults with congenital heart disease

Approximately 50 million adults worldwide have known congenital heart disease (CHD). Among the most common types of CHD defects in adults are atrial septal defects and ventricular septal defects followed by complex congenital heart lesions such as tetralogy of Fallot. Adults with CHDs are more likel...

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Published in:Future cardiology 2020-07, Vol.16 (4), p.317-342
Main Author: Henning, Robert J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adults
ASDs
atrial septal defects
Cardiac arrhythmia
cardiac catheterization
Cardiovascular disease
chest x-ray
Classification
Congenital diseases
Coronary vessels
Defects
Diagnostic tests
dysrhythmia
ECG
echocardiograms
Ejection fraction
Heart failure
Morphology
Mortality
Patients
Physiology
Pregnancy
Pulmonary arteries
Pulmonary hypertension
Surgery
surgical repair
tetralogy of Fallot
TOF
ventricular septal defects
VSDs
Womens health
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Summary:Approximately 50 million adults worldwide have known congenital heart disease (CHD). Among the most common types of CHD defects in adults are atrial septal defects and ventricular septal defects followed by complex congenital heart lesions such as tetralogy of Fallot. Adults with CHDs are more likely to have hypertension, cerebral vascular disease, diabetes and chronic kidney disease than age-matched controls without CHD. Moreover, by the age of 50, adults with CHD are at a greater than 10% risk of experiencing cardiac dysrhythmias and approximately 4% experience sudden death. Consequently, adults with CHD require healthcare that is two- to four-times greater than adults without CHD. This paper discusses the diagnosis and treatment of adults with atrial septal defects, ventricular septal defects and tetralogy of Fallot.
ISSN:1479-6678
1744-8298
DOI:10.2217/fca-2019-0061