Pediatric and congenital cardiology has evolved considerably over the last decades. Faced with the heterogeneity and complexity of the children concerned, this specialty has had to adapt and develop new diagnostic and therapeutic tools to provide the necessary solutions to improve patient’s care. This history continues to be written and the next perspectives will probably not only be the improvement of yesterday's ideas. Concerning diagnostic imaging, the tools developed as well as their modalities of application are in full revolution thanks to the technological optimization available. From an interventional and therapeutic point of view, both by catheterization and surgery, the new solutions proposed or imagined are often a mixture of ideas specific to pediatric cardiology and innovative technical tools. In all these topics, this perpetual innovation deserves a dedicated Collection to better determine the tools that will be available to the pediatric cardiologist of tomorrow.
Through this series of articles, the objective is to present and explain some of the future diagnostic and therapeutic techniques in pediatric cardiology. This will be done according to 3 axes: imaging, catheterization, and surgery.
We are primarily interested in Reviews Articles and Perspectives, but Original Research Articles are also welcome if they respect the scientific scope of the Collection. For each focus (Imaging, Catheterization, Surgery), this Research Topic will present new technologies or clinical approaches to be developed, their relevance for specific clinical applications, and how we can implement them into solutions for the future.
Pediatric and congenital cardiology has evolved considerably over the last decades. Faced with the heterogeneity and complexity of the children concerned, this specialty has had to adapt and develop new diagnostic and therapeutic tools to provide the necessary solutions to improve patient’s care. This history continues to be written and the next perspectives will probably not only be the improvement of yesterday's ideas. Concerning diagnostic imaging, the tools developed as well as their modalities of application are in full revolution thanks to the technological optimization available. From an interventional and therapeutic point of view, both by catheterization and surgery, the new solutions proposed or imagined are often a mixture of ideas specific to pediatric cardiology and innovative technical tools. In all these topics, this perpetual innovation deserves a dedicated Collection to better determine the tools that will be available to the pediatric cardiologist of tomorrow.
Through this series of articles, the objective is to present and explain some of the future diagnostic and therapeutic techniques in pediatric cardiology. This will be done according to 3 axes: imaging, catheterization, and surgery.
We are primarily interested in Reviews Articles and Perspectives, but Original Research Articles are also welcome if they respect the scientific scope of the Collection. For each focus (Imaging, Catheterization, Surgery), this Research Topic will present new technologies or clinical approaches to be developed, their relevance for specific clinical applications, and how we can implement them into solutions for the future.