Pediatric Catheter Intervention

Transcatheter interventions have become the standard of care for many congenital heart defects. As with most areas of congenital heart disease management, interventional cardiology as a field has achieved great successes by standing on the shoulders of giants. In this chapter we review the indications, technical procedural details, potential complications, and outcomes of the per-catheter intervention of cardiac valves, right ventricular outflow lesions, septal defects, patent arterial duct, vascular interventions, and hybrid procedures. In addition, review of new technologies in this field are discussed as it pertains to various lesions and procedures.