RT Book, Section A1 Mandal, Kaushik A1 Weerasena, Nihal A. A2 Yuh, David D. A2 Vricella, Luca A. A2 Yang, Stephen C. A2 Doty, John R. SR Print(0) ID 1104599784 T1 Management of Adults with Congenital Heart Disease T2 Johns Hopkins Textbook of Cardiothoracic Surgery YR 2014 FD 2014 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 978-0-07-166350-2 LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1104599784 RD 2024/04/19 AB The extraordinary advances and dramatic successes of pediatric cardiology and surgery over the past 50 years have witnessed an increase in children born with congenital heart disease (CHD) who survive into adulthood. This success in survival has created a new population of patients of adults with congenital heart disease (ACHD). The number of ACHD will very likely continue to increase in the near future.1 The 32nd Bethesda Conference had estimated that there were approximately 800,000 adults with CHD in the United States in the year 20002; in the United Kingdom alone there are currently approximately 250,000 ACHD patients.3