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More learning from the Cincinnati 2011 ACHD course
Progress in Pediatric Cardiology 34 (2012) 67
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Editorial
More learning from the Cincinnati 2011 ACHD course
Introduction to the second issue It has been a great pleasure for us to have had the chance to review the excellent manuscripts contained in this issue of Progress in Pediatric Cardiology. The topics in this issue were derived from lectures and presentations given at the 2011 North American ACHD course held in Cincinnati, Ohio. This is the second and last issue of the Journal reporting the presentations from this program. The topics cover a wide range of subjects, and are clinically compelling. The issue begins with three manuscripts on the modern management of arrhythmias in ACHD patients. Dr. Louise Harris updates us on advances and new perspectives in the drug therapy of arrhythmias. Dr. Sabine Ernst follows with two manuscripts: one on the ablation of atrial arrhythmias after atrial switch surgery; the other on the remarkable developments of remote navigation tools to reach difficult parts of the heart to manage arrhythmias. Dr. Ariane Marelli and her colleagues from Québec Canada have provided impressive information about adult congenital heart disease patients, their survival, their resource utilization, and other important epidemiologic data. In this issue, she reports on the changing demographics of congenital heart disease, and the change has been dramatic! We need to bring ourselves up-to-date with the current information which undoubtedly applies to most or all of North America and the developed world. Drs. Cedars and Braverman present an outstanding manuscript on the many faces of bicuspid aortic valve. We all encounter these patients, and will benefit from the updated and cogent information that they provide.
1058-9813/$ – see front matter © 2012 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ppedcard.2012.08.001
Dr. Curt Daniels and his colleagues ask whether we really need to place covered stents for adult coarctation intervention. Drs. Radke and Baumgartner address the controversial issue of whether coarctation patients should routinely be screened for intracranial aneurysms. Drs. Noble and Ibrahim tell us how to avoid pulmonary edema after device closure of a secundum ASD in a patient with elevated LV filling pressures. As we know, many ACHD patients are regularly lost to follow-up. Dr. Markus Schwerzmann presents suggestions as to how to keep our adult patients in care. He and his colleagues, Drs. Wustmann and Schmidheiny, follow with an important paper telling us what we need to know about drug interactions in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension. Continuing that theme, Drs. Freixa and Ibrahim make the case that all pulmonary hypertensive patients need a heart catheter study. The issue ends with an important state-of-the-art paper by Dr. Anji Yetman on pregnancy in patients with aortic dilatation. We believe that you will all be stimulated and informed by these manuscripts, and offer our sincere appreciation to the authors. Gary D. Webb Guest Editor Cincinnati, OH, United States Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected]. William G. Williams Guest Editor Toronto, Canada
Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect
Progress in Pediatric Cardiology journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/ppedcard
Editorial
More learning from the Cincinnati 2011 ACHD course
Introduction to the second issue It has been a great pleasure for us to have had the chance to review the excellent manuscripts contained in this issue of Progress in Pediatric Cardiology. The topics in this issue were derived from lectures and presentations given at the 2011 North American ACHD course held in Cincinnati, Ohio. This is the second and last issue of the Journal reporting the presentations from this program. The topics cover a wide range of subjects, and are clinically compelling. The issue begins with three manuscripts on the modern management of arrhythmias in ACHD patients. Dr. Louise Harris updates us on advances and new perspectives in the drug therapy of arrhythmias. Dr. Sabine Ernst follows with two manuscripts: one on the ablation of atrial arrhythmias after atrial switch surgery; the other on the remarkable developments of remote navigation tools to reach difficult parts of the heart to manage arrhythmias. Dr. Ariane Marelli and her colleagues from Québec Canada have provided impressive information about adult congenital heart disease patients, their survival, their resource utilization, and other important epidemiologic data. In this issue, she reports on the changing demographics of congenital heart disease, and the change has been dramatic! We need to bring ourselves up-to-date with the current information which undoubtedly applies to most or all of North America and the developed world. Drs. Cedars and Braverman present an outstanding manuscript on the many faces of bicuspid aortic valve. We all encounter these patients, and will benefit from the updated and cogent information that they provide.
1058-9813/$ – see front matter © 2012 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ppedcard.2012.08.001
Dr. Curt Daniels and his colleagues ask whether we really need to place covered stents for adult coarctation intervention. Drs. Radke and Baumgartner address the controversial issue of whether coarctation patients should routinely be screened for intracranial aneurysms. Drs. Noble and Ibrahim tell us how to avoid pulmonary edema after device closure of a secundum ASD in a patient with elevated LV filling pressures. As we know, many ACHD patients are regularly lost to follow-up. Dr. Markus Schwerzmann presents suggestions as to how to keep our adult patients in care. He and his colleagues, Drs. Wustmann and Schmidheiny, follow with an important paper telling us what we need to know about drug interactions in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension. Continuing that theme, Drs. Freixa and Ibrahim make the case that all pulmonary hypertensive patients need a heart catheter study. The issue ends with an important state-of-the-art paper by Dr. Anji Yetman on pregnancy in patients with aortic dilatation. We believe that you will all be stimulated and informed by these manuscripts, and offer our sincere appreciation to the authors. Gary D. Webb Guest Editor Cincinnati, OH, United States Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected]. William G. Williams Guest Editor Toronto, Canada