Congenital heart defectsHeart failureEnd-of-lifeCommunicationWe investigated preferences of adults with congenital heart disease (CHD) and their health care providers regarding end-of-life (EOL) communication. Adult CHD outpatients and health care providers completed surveys about preferences for and ...
Survival for individuals with congenital heart disease (CHD) has greatly improved over the past several decades. There are now more adults than children with CHD. However, while survival has improved to adulthood, mortality in patients with CHD has shifted to adulthood. There is also significant m...
Adults with congenital heart defects (CHDs) are more likely to report cardiovascular comorbidities than those in the general population, according to research published in the Feb. 12 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity
During the last few decades, the survival rate of adults with congenital heart disease (ConHD) has increased considerably. The psychological characterization of adults with ConHD is very different from patients with acquired cardiac pathologies. Recent g
Most study participants had a single heart defect, and all had at least one documented congenital heart lesion or a specific congenital heart malformation repair procedure. At least 18 distinct types of congenital heart defects—some are simple and some are complex—are recognized according to the ...
Antecedents of self-care in adults with congenital heart defects Int J Cardiol, 201 (2015), pp. 610-615 View PDFView articleView in ScopusGoogle Scholar 53 J.M. Steiner, K. Stout, L. Soine, J.N. Kirkpatrick, J.R. Curtis Perspectives on advance care planning and palliative care among ...
The article presents a research conducted by Maxime Cannesson and Michael Earing regarding the effectiveness of administering noncardiac surgery anesthesia in adults who are suffering from congenital heart defects. Accordingly, several researchers have found that congenital heart disease (CHD) is considered...
Considers the tests on adults with heart defects, and their families, to determine the etiology of congenital heart disease. The value of finding data on the frequency of recurrent congenital malformation in the offspring of such individuals; The patients studied; Results; Discussion.Burn...
Heart transplantation with or without mechanical circulatory support may be the only option for highly selected patients. The aim of this review is to describe advanced heart failure therapies for adults with congenital heart disease, including the general approach to evaluation and management, pre- ...
The most common congenital heart defects encountered in adults Atrial septal defects (ASDs) Description: ASD is a direct communication between the atria allowing shunting of blood. There are four types of ASD, depending on the location of the defect (Fig.1a): ...