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Author(s): G Hamilton Baker , Girish S Shirali Added: 3 years ago
Congenital heart disease affects approximately 0.8% of the population.1 It is also estimated that there are approximately one million adults in the US living with some form of congenital heart disease.2 In daily practice, echocardiography is the most widely used imaging modality for diagnosis and evaluation of these patients. As medical technology has developed, this modality has continuously… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics

Heterogeneous Populations
Author(s): Duraisamy Balaguru , Rajiv Verma Added: 3 years ago
Surgical repair has been the cornerstone of treatment for congenital heart diseases (CHD). However, cardiac catheterization has evolved from being a diagnostic modality to a therapeutic one in the past four decades. Application of catheter-based therapy has become the standard of care for some congenital heart defects, thus obviating surgery. This review will discuss congenital heart defects that… View more

Heterogeneous Populations
Author(s): RJ Kanter Added: 3 years ago
Introduction Compared with patients with structurally normal hearts, there is an even greater need to suppress pathologic tachycardias in patients with congenital heart disease. The decrease in diastolic filling time and potential loss of atrioventricular (AV) synchrony are more poorly tolerated in these patients, proportionate to the degree of underlying systolic and diastolic dysfunction… View more

Heterogeneous Populations
Essentials in the Post-operative Evaluation of Congenital Heart Disease
Author(s): Jonathan N Johnson , Frank Cetta Added: 3 years ago
The last 60 years have seen significant changes in the care of congenital heart disease for both pediatric and adult patients. Increasing patient survival rates have widened the number and scope of potential patients seen by congenital cardiologists.1 These patients often undergo multiple surgeries, particularly since few lesions are truly ‘repaired.’ The majority of patients will have residua or… View more

Vascular Disease and Surgery

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Author(s): Nico A Blom Added: 3 years ago
Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) using biventricular pacing has been proven to be effective in adult patients with left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction and QRS prolongation. In this group of patients, CRT improves exercise tolerance, symptoms of heart failure and all-cause mortality.1 In addition, there is growing evidence that inter- and intra-ventricular dyssynchrony induced by… View more

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Assessing Pregnancy Risk in Patients with Congenital Heart Disease
Author(s): Ajitha Kulasekaran , Lorna Swan Added: 11 months ago

Demographic

Heterogeneous Populations
Pregnancy in Women with Congenital Heart Disease: A Guide for the General Cardiologist
Author(s): Catherine R Weinberg , Amier Ahmad , Boyangzi Li , et al Added: 3 years ago
Dyspnea, palpitations, edema, and fatigue are common symptoms during pregnancy. For women with congenital heart disease (CHD), it may be difficult to discern whether symptoms are due to normal pregnancy or underlying cardiac disease. Although most women with CHD tend to experience successful pregnancies, morbidity and mortality are significantly increased with more complex CHD lesions.1–6 Women… View more

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Catherine R Weinberg
Research Area(s) / Expertise: Job title: Director of the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program and High Risk Cardiovascular Obstetrics
Personal History Dr Catherine Ruth Weinberg is the Director of Adult Congenital Heart Disease Cardiology and High Risk Cardiovascular Obstetrics Cardiology in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Lenox Hill Hospital. She specializes in Cardiovascular Disease and Internal Medicine. She is based in the New York area. Academic History Dr Weinberg earned her Bachelor’s in… View more
Dan G Halpern
Research Area(s) / Expertise: Job title: MD
Personal History Dr Dan G. Halpern is a cardiologist based in the New York area. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and the Medical Director of the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program at NYU Langone Health. “I have wanted to be a doctor since I was a child,” he says. Prior to becoming a physician, he served as a medic in the Army… View more
Roos-Hesselink
Dr Jolien Roos-Hesselink is Professor of Cardiology at the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. She is director of the Department of Adult Congenital Heart Disease. Dr Roos-Hesselink research involves Congenital Heart Disease, Aortic disease, Endocarditis and Pregnancy and maternal cardiac disease. She has authored and co-authored over 300 scientific publications and mentored 17 PhD students… View more