Novel Methods and Techniques for the Management of Congenital Heart Disease

Submission Deadline: 30 July 2025 View: 10 Submit to Special Issue

Guest Editors

Prof. Dr. Naofumi F Sumitomo

Email:naosumi1983@keio.jp

Affiliation: Department of Pediatrics (Shinanomachi), Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan.

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Research Interests: Congenital heart disease, Adult congenital heart disease, Pediatric electrophysiology, Pediatric echocardiography, Imaging modality, Cardiac magnetic resonance, Cardiac computed tomography, Artificial Intelligence, Pediatric heart failure, Computed fluid dynamics analysis, Pulmonary hypertension

Summary

The diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart disease are improving daily, leading to dramatically enhanced patient outcomes worldwide. However, Accurate hemodynamic assessment and treatment selection for several congenital heart diseases, including single ventricular circulation, complex valvular disease, and certain vascular diseases etc., are still evolving. Even in some adult patients with congenital heart disease, there are still some areas where evaluation methods still need to be fully established to ensure that appropriate initial or reintervention is performed at the right time.

In recent years, new techniques for assessing and understanding hemodynamics, pathology, severity, and the timing of intervention of cardiac diseases have emerged, including 3D/4D echocardiography, speckle tracking, stress testing, 4D CT, 4D-flow MRI, blood flow analysis simulation, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, virtual reality, 3D printing, etc.

This special issue invites submissions discussing the impact of these novel methods and techniques on managing all types of congenital heart diseases in children and adults. We welcome original articles, reviews, valuable case reports, and imaging reports.

We hope this special issue contributes to a brighter future for all patients with congenital heart disease.

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