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Congenital Aortic Stenosis and Aneurysms
- Publication date
- 19 April 2013
- Publisher
- Due to improvements in pediatric cardio-thoracic surgery, anesthesia and diagnostics over the past
decades, the number of adult patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) is growing. This causes
an increasing demand in clinical practice for insight in long term outcome in both non-operated and
operated adult CHD patients. Furthermore, knowledge about etiology and genetics of CHD is rapidly
expanding. Every day new genes and syndromes are identified.
In order to grasp the exact nature of the pathologies described in this thesis, the epidemiology of
CHD and the functional anatomy of the left ventricular outflow tract and aorta will first be delineated.
Thereafter, the congenital aortic disorders investigated in this thesis will be introduced individually.
Finally, the aim and outline of this thesis will be presented.