PART I) GENERAL 1) Informed Consent
2) Anaesthesiological Management of the Paediatric Patient in the Catheterisation Laboratory
3) Antibiotics and Anticoagulation
4) 4) Angiography: Basics and Contrast Media
5) Angiography: Standard Projections / Radiation Exposure
6) Catheters and Wires
7) Balloons
8) Stents
9) Transcatheter Valve Devices in Congenital Heart Disease
10) Adult Tools Relevant For Congenital Heart Disease
11) Hemodynamic Assessment: Pressures, Flow, Resistances and Vasoreactive Testing
12) Congenital Heart Disease: An Integrated Care Approach
PART II) VASCULAR ACCESS 13) The Usual Vascular Access
14) Unusual Access
15) Hemostasis
16) Access Complications and Management
17) Transseptal Access
18) Hybrid Accesses
PART III) FETAL PROCEDURES 19) Fetal Interventions
PART IV) STEP-BY-STEP PROCEDURES: VALVE DILATATION 20) Aortic Valvular Stenosis
21) Pulmonary Valvular Stenosis
22) Pulmonary Atresia and Intact Venreicular Septum
23) Percutaneous Transcatheter Balloon Mitral Commissurotomy
PART V) STEP-BY-STEP PROCEDURES: VESSEL TREATMENT 24) Stent Implantation in Patients with Pulmonary Arterial Stenosis
25) Aortic Coarctation
26) The Role of Transcatheter Interventions in Middle Aortic Syndrome
27) Reopening of Peripheral and Central Arteries and Veins
28) PDA Stenting in Duct-dependent Pulmonary Circulation
29) PDA Stenting in Duct-dependent Systemic Circulation
PART VI) STEP-BY-STEP PROCEDURES: CLOSING OR CREATING A DEFECT 30) Step-by-step Closure of Atrial Septal Defects (ASDs)
31) Step-by-step Device Closure of Persistent Foramen Ovale (PFO)
32) Fontan Fenestrations Closure
33) Ventricular Septal Defect
34) Patent Ductus Arteriosus Closure
35) Percutaneous Closure of PDA in Premature Babies
36) Closure of Coronary Arterial Fistulas
37) Vessel Embolization: Transcatheter Embolization of Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformations and Aortopulmonary Collateral Arteries
38) Closure of Residual Post-surgical Defects
39) ASD Closure in Special Situations: Elderly, PA-IVS
40) Creating an Interatrial Communication
41) Transcatheter Correction of the Superior Sinus Venosus ASD
PART VII) STEP-BY-STEP PROCEDURES: VALVE IMPLANTATION 42) Melody Valve Implantation in Pulmonary Position
43) SAPIEN XT Valve Implantation in the Pulmonary Position
44) Percutaneous Tricuspid Valve Implantation
45) Novel Self-Expanding Pulmonary Valves and Devices
46) Approaches to Large or Complex Right Ventricular Outflow Tract
PART VIII) STEP-BY-STEP PROCEDURES: PRINCIPLES OF HYBRID APPROACH 47) Hybrid Approach in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS)
48) Hybrid Approach: Defect Closure
49) Hybrid Approach: Stent Implantation
PART IX) STEP-BY-STEP PROCEDURES: MISCELLANEA 50) Retrieval Techniques
51) Pericardiocentesis
52) Endomyocardial Biopsies
53) Evaluations Before Partial and Total Cavopulmonary Connections
54) Hemodynamics in Pericardial and Myocardial Diseases
55) Imaging and Treating Coronary Arteries in Children
56) Transcatheter Treatments in PA-VSD-MAPCAs
57) Stenting of the Right Ventricular Outflow Tract as Initial Palliation for Fallot-Type Lesions
PART X) IMAGING TECHNIQUES 58) The Use of 3D Rotational Angiography in Congenital Heart Disease
59) Intracardiac Echocardiography
60) Three Dimensional Transoesophageal Echocardiography in Diagnosis and Transcatheter Treatment of Congenital Cardiac Defects
61) 3D Mapping Live Integration and Overlay of 3D Data from MRI and CT for Improved Guidance of Interventional Cardiac Therapy
62) 3D Printing and Engineering Tools Relevant to Plan a Transcatheter Procedure
63) Development of a Quality Improvement Culture in the Congenital Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
64) Quality Improvement Tools and Risk Mitigation in the Congenital Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
65) Hemodynamic Formulae, Calculations and Charts.