Vol 8, No 6 (December 27, 2018): Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy [Current management aspects in adult congenital heart disease (ACHD): Part I]

Preface

Current management aspects in adult congenital heart disease: heading for the future
Harald Kaemmerer, Yskert von Kodolitsch
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Original Article

The transition of pediatric Marfan patients to adult care: a challenge and its risks
Veronika C. Stark, Katrin Doering, Yskert von Kodolitsch, Rainer Kozlik-Feldmann, Götz C. Mueller, Jakob Olfe, Meike Rybczynski, Helke Schueler, Thomas S. Mir
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Review Article

Improving medical care and prevention in adults with congenital heart disease—reflections on a global problem—part I: development of congenital cardiology, epidemiology, clinical aspects, heart failure, cardiac arrhythmia
Rhoia Neidenbach, Koichiro Niwa, Oeztekin Oto, Erwin Oechslin, Jamil Aboulhosn, David Celermajer, Joerg Schelling, Lars Pieper, Linda Sanftenberg, Renate Oberhoffer, Fokko de Haan, Michael Weyand, Stephan Achenbach, Christian Schlensak, Dirk Lossnitzer, Nicole Nagdyman, Yskert von Kodolitsch, Hans-Carlo Kallfelz, David Pittrow, Ulrike M. M. Bauer, Peter Ewert, Thomas Meinertz, Harald Kaemmerer
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Improving medical care and prevention in adults with congenital heart disease—reflections on a global problem—part II: infective endocarditis, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary arterial hypertension and aortopathy
Rhoia Neidenbach, Koichiro Niwa, Oeztekin Oto, Erwin Oechslin, Jamil Aboulhosn, David Celermajer, Joerg Schelling, Lars Pieper, Linda Sanftenberg, Renate Oberhoffer, Fokko de Haan, Michael Weyand, Stephan Achenbach, Christian Schlensak, Dirk Lossnitzer, Nicole Nagdyman, Yskert von Kodolitsch, Hans-Carlo Kallfelz, David Pittrow, Ulrike M. M. Bauer, Peter Ewert, Thomas Meinertz, Harald Kaemmerer
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Aortic dilatation in complex congenital heart disease
Koichiro Niwa
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Current management aspects in adult congenital heart disease: non-surgical closure of patent foramen ovale
Kaivan Vaidya, Chinmay Khandkar, David Celermajer
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Current spectrum, challenges and new developments in the surgical care of adults with congenital heart disease
Jürgen Hörer
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Percutaneous tricuspid valve implantation in failing bioprosthesis
Andreas Eicken, Peter Ewert
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The role of echocardiography in the management of adult patients with congenital heart disease following operative treatment
Kálmán Havasi, Nóra Ambrus, Anita Kalapos, Tamás Forster, Attila Nemes
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Mini-Review

Bicuspid aortic valve and aortic coarctation in congenital heart disease—important aspects for treatment with focus on aortic vasculopathy
Christoph Sinning, Elvin Zengin, Rainer Kozlik-Feldmann, Stefan Blankenberg, Carsten Rickers, Yskert von Kodolitsch, Evaldas Girdauskas
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Aortic valve repair in adult congenital heart disease
Evaldas Girdauskas, Johannes Petersen, Jörg Sachweh, Rainer Kozlik-Feldmann, Christoph Sinning, Carsten Rickers, Yskert von Kodolitsch, Hermann Reichenspurner
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Current research status on the psychological situation of adults with congenital heart disease
Caroline Andonian, Jürgen Beckmann, Sabina Biber, Peter Ewert, Sebastian Freilinger, Harald Kaemmerer, Renate Oberhoffer, Lars Pieper, Rhoia Clara Neidenbach
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Perspective

How to prevent inadvertent emergency anticoagulation in acute type A aortic dissection: when in doubt, don’t
Silke Zschaler, Gerard Schmidt, Marian Kukucka, Georg Syrmas, Lisa Zaschke, Stephan Dominik Kurz
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Viewpoint

Aortentelefon: the Berlin project aiming for shorter response times and sharper diagnostic accuracy in acute type A aortic dissection
Silke Zschaler, Gerard Schmidt, Stephan Dominik Kurz
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Brief Report

Extra-cardiac comorbidities or complications in adults with congenital heart disease: a nationwide inpatient experience in the United States
Sandeep Singh, Rupak Desai, Hee Kong Fong, Ashish Sadolikar, Suparn Samani, Hemant Goyal
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Technical Note

“Tailored” endovascular pulmonary valve and root replacement for rupture of a dilated homograft
Götz Christoph Müller, Christoph Sinning, Elvin Zengin-Sahm, Veronika Stark, Thomas S. Mir, Carsten Rickers, Rainer Kozlik-Feldmann, Tilo Kölbel, Ulrich Schäfer
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Arts and Medicine

“Poetic naturalism” as a way beyond the postmodern tensions between art and science
Jared Vaughan Davis
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Disclosure:

The focused issue “Current management aspects in adult congenital heart disease (ACHD): Part I” was commissioned by the editorial office, Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy without any sponsorship or funding. Harald Kaemmerer and Yskert von Kodolitsch served as the unpaid Guest Editors for the focused issue.