Cardiovascular Disease in Children
A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Pediatric Cardiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2023) | Viewed by 27747
Special Issue Editor
2. Heart failure and Transplant, Pediatric Cardiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London WC1N 3JH, UK
3. Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Institute of Pharmacological Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, 6900 Lugano, Switzerland
Interests: cardiovascular function; heart failure; heart transplant; arterial hypertension; cardiovascular pharmacology; endothelial function; cardiac disease in chronic kidney disease
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality worldwide [1]. An increasing body of evidence underscores the importance of fetal and paediatric programming of cardiovascular health and disease [2-3]. On the other side, over the last years, Paediatric Cardiology has assisted an impressive increase in diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities. After the big progresses and achievements of paediatric cardiac surgery in the second half of the last century [4-5], we are now in a golden era for Paediatric Cardiology. If during that period, thanks to improved imaging techniques [6], a main task of the cardiologist was to decide indication as well as timing of surgery and delivering the best accurate images to the surgeon for operative planning, nowadays the cardiologist has a much broader role.
First, a plethora of interventional techniques are meanwhile established and allow to efficiently address several structural problems without the need of open cardiac surgery and extracardiac circulation [7-8].
Second, the role of the paediatric cardiologist in the perioperative intensive care management continuously increases in importance and potentiality.
Third, perioperative survival is nowadays a quality criterium and not more an “achievement”. We meanwhile must focus on long-term survival and morbidity, aiming at bringing this “congenital heart disease population” into their eighties in excellent physical and psychological conditions.
Fourth, we nowadays can positively influence the course of several disease processes such as myocarditis, pericarditis, cardiomyophaties, pulmonary hypertension, cardiac involvement in oncological, haematological, neuromuscular, respiratory and metabolic (including among others arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus and chronic kidney disease) diseases.
Fifth, we are continuously increasing our attention to cardiovascular health, from fetal life into adulthood. Perinatal conditioning, paediatric arterial hypertension, hypercholesterolemias, endothelial function, vascular health of solid-organ transplant including heart-transplant recipients represent main challenges for the future generation of paediatric cardiologists [3,9].
In conclusion, Paediatric Cardiology is no more a small alcove branch of Pediatrics. In fact, the modern cardiologist is not a specialized technician, but a full-blown Paediatrician, as recently demonstrated in the context of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemics and the Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome [10-11]. Paediatric Cardiologists nowadays face a series of challenging but inspiring and exciting tasks. In this special issue, we would like to cover some aspects of this amazing, growing field of Paediatrics. We will particularly appreciate and prioritize concise and clear presentations.
Looking forward for your contributions,
Dr. Sebastiano A.G. Lava
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- paediatric cardiology
- congenital heart disease
- endothelial function
- arterial hypertension
- echocardiography
- interventional cardiology
- arrhythmias
- fontan circulation
- heart failure
- paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19
- smartwatch
- cardiovascular disease
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