New challenges and opportunities in adult congenital heart disease
Douglas Moodie
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In addition to the patients who first present with congenital heart disease as adults, growing numbers of children who were operated on in infancy and young childhood are surviving well into adulthood. In the US, between 800,000 and 1,000,000 patients over the age of 20 years are estimated to have congenital heart disease—more than among people younger than 20 years. Around 120,000 of these patients have truly complex disease, 300,000 have moderate congenital heart disease, and between 400,000 and 600,000 have simple congenital cardiac defects.
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