Evidence-Based Cardiology: Strategies for ACHD
Adults with congenital heart disease (ACHD) are a rapidly growing, frequently underserved population who present new challenges in cardiology patient management. In Cleveland Clinic Comprehensive Lifetime Care of Adult Congenital Heart Disease — an online video CME course — presenters address the latest clinical and research advances in congenital anomaly morphologies.
Evidence-based lectures focus on the best diagnostic modalities and interventions, as well as the most appropriate management strategies. You get continuing medical education that will improve your ability to:
- Assess right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction, including clinical evaluation and interventional, surgical, and hybrid options
- Assess and manage adults who underwent Fontan surgery, including imaging, treatment options, and timing of valve interventions, Fontan conversion, and heart failure therapies
- Assess and treat patients with Fontan-associated liver disease
- Recognize social and patient-perceived barriers that complicate the diagnosis and life-long management of ACHD
- Detail the highly complex ecosystem of adult congenital heart care and describe how new guidelines may shape care in the future
* Date of Original Release: June 1, 2023
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this activity, the participant will be able to:
- Summarize the most recent developments in the assessment of right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction, including clinical evaluation and interventional, surgical, and hybrid options in adult patients with congenital heart disease
- Describe improvements in strategies in the assessment and management of adults who underwent Fontan surgery, including imaging, treatment options, and timing of valve interventions, Fontan conversion, and heart failure therapies
- Summarize options for the assessment and treatment of patients with Fontan-associated liver disease
- Describe the social and patient-perceived barriers that complicate the diagnosis and life-long management of adult congenital heart disease patients
- Detail the highly complex ecosystem of congenital heart care in adults, and describe how new guidelines may shape that care in the future