Recent technological progresses have led to the development of new devices and
procedures which have greatly improved the chance to effectively treat structural heart …

Recent advances in catheter-based interventions have provided effective alternative
treatments to surgery for several structural heart diseases such as atrial or ventricular septal …

Background: In the last decades, interventional cardiology has received fast and wide
implementation as an effective alternative treatment to surgery for several congenital and …

Percutaneous interventions in structural heart diseases are emerging rapidly. The variety of
novel percutaneous treatment approaches and the increasing complexity of interventional …

Treatments for structural heart diseases (SHD) have been considerably evolved by the
widespread of transcatheter approach in the last decades. The progression of transcatheter …

'Structural heart disease', as defined in this supplement, refers to a diverse group of
anatomic and pathological conditions involving the myocardium, pericardium, valvular, and …

Cardiac catheterization has contributed to the progress made in the management of patients
with congenital heart disease (CHD). First, it allowed clarification of the diagnostic …

Cardiac imaging is central to today's pediatric cardiology practice not only to diagnose
structural congenital defects and delineate cardiac and extracardiac anatomy but also for …

Transcatheter therapies for the treatment of structural heart diseases (SHD) have expanded
dramatically over the last years, thanks to the developments and improvements of devices …

Structural heart disease is a new field in cardiovascular medicine, which has resulted in the
creation of a new imaging subspecialty. Structural heart disease imagers have been …