Cardiac Interventions in Pediatric Cardiology: the Future

initiated pediatric cardiac interventions. Interventional Pediatric Cardiology since then has come a long way and several lesions are now primarily treated by interventional catheterization. These include pulmonary valve stenosis, aortic stenosis, patent ductus arteriosus, aortic recoarctation. In other situations, interventions are used preferably over surgery including native coarctation of aorta, stenting for branch pulmonary arteries, pulmonary valve balloon dilatation in tetralogy of Fallot’s, re-dilatation of the stenosed conduit placed in the right ventricular outflow tract, stenosed Blalock-Taussig shunt and coil embolization of collateral vessels. In the last decade, the spectrum of interventions have increased to an extent that surgical procedures are being replaced by interventional procedures, making pediatric cardiology one of the more advanced fields in medicine and further increasing the challenges of pediatric cardiac surgery.