Surgery

What you will learn

Many adult patients with congenital heart defects will already be corrected when you see them. This is why you need to know the different surgical corrections performed in this population. This chapter explains the individual procedures, when they are applied, how to assess them with echocardiography, and which post-surgical problems might arise. Finally, we discuss the role of other imaging modalities. 

Topics:

• Ross procedure
• Double switch procedure
• Rastelli operation
• Bi-directional Glenn anastomosis
• Fontan operation
• Atrial switch procedure
• Extracardiac TCPC
• Norwood procedure
• PA Banding
• Aortopulmonary shunt operations
• Blalock-Taussig shunt
• Potts shunt
• Waterston shunt