The adult congenital cardiac service in Southampton sees patients who are referred following outpatient appointments, emergency patients and adults who have known about their congenital heart condition since they were a child.
Advances in earlier diagnosis, improved surgical techniques, innovative and advanced treatments and follow-up mean than many more babies born with a congenital heart condition are living into adulthood.
Adults with congenital heart disease (ACHD), also referred to as grown-up congenital heart disease (GUCH), now outnumber the babies and children with a heart condition.
Just as the babies and children need specialist care, so the adults need to be cared for by the adult congenital cardiologists who have specialist expertise and experience with this group of patients.
Find out about inpatient and outpatient care for adults with congenital heart disease, meet the patients and find some helpful links for those living with congenital heart conditions.
Further information can be found here.