What is Adult Congenital Heat Disease?
Adult Congenital Heart Disease is the branch of Cardiology that focus on diagnosis and management of heart defects in adults that they were born with and carried to their adult life.
The fellows training in adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) program will have advanced training in the field of ACHD, high risk pregnancy/maternal cardiac disease in pregnancy, and exposure to pulmonary hypertension, cardiac imaging, electrophysiology, diagnostic and interventional catheterization, advanced heart failure and transplantation, and cardiac surgery in the adult patient with congenital heart disease.
Physicians as well as fellows practicing in the domain of ACHD usually refer to a group of books that cover the spectrum of diseases in this field which include:
Diagnosis and Management of Adult Congenital Heart Disease
Echocardiography in Pediatric and Adult Congenital Heart Disease
Pregnancy and Congenital Heart Disease
Anesthetic and Perioperative Management
Cardiac CT and MR for Adult Congenital Heart Disease
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