TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Surgery for Adult Congenital Heart Disease A1 - Burke, Redmond P. A2 - Cohn, Lawrence H. A2 - Adams, David H. PY - 2017 T2 - Cardiac Surgery in the Adult, 5e AB - Adults with congenital heart disease now outnumber children with this malady. They constitute a growing population of survivors, with increasingly complex treatment requirements for their heart disease. Over the past two decades, the spectrum of complexity for adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) patients has evolved from late primary repairs of patients with simple lesions—including coarctation, patent ductus arteriosus, septal defects, and tetralogy of Fallot—to nth time reoperations on survivors of complex multistaged palliations. Significant efforts to define the optimal program resources necessary to effectively treat ACHD patients have been made worldwide,1 yet many congenital heart patients continue to suffer from poor continuity of care as they enter adulthood. This chapter will describe several salient treatment strategies for adult patients undergoing congenital heart surgery. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1144167569 ER -