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Congenital Heart Disease Guidelines Target Adults


 

Although the guideline recommendations are evidence based wherever possible, “unlike other ACC/AHA practice guidelines, there is not a large body of peer-reviewed published evidence to support most recommendations,” the authors wrote. For this reason, the evidence supporting many of the recommendations comes from the consensus of experts.

An increasing number of patients are now surviving into adulthood with complex cardiac anatomy and physiology. DR. WARNES

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