
With the technological progress, the role of the cardiac catheterization has dramatically changed, moving from diagnostic to therapeutic and becoming adjuvant to surgical procedures. In various congenital heart defects, it allows to postpone the need for surgery or even cancel the surgical indication being less invasive and as powerful as surgery. It is thanks to many technological advances, in particular with the development of devices with memory alloy, that the catheterization makes such great strides today, and the miniaturization of the prosthetic material makes it possible to push back more and more the limits of feasibility which remain related to the smallness of the vascular accesses at the newborn age. The future of this discipline lies in the hybrid procedures, where a true teamwork between the surgeons and the pediatric cardiologists makes it possible to bring the best therapeutic strategy for patients with congenital heart defects.
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