Adult Congenital Heart Disease

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All these features can make standard echocardiographic views difficult to obtain with the patient in the regular positions. It is important to remember that an echocardiographic study in an adult with complex congenital heart disease is likely to be much more time consuming than one in an adult with a normally positioned and related heart. One must adopt an attitude of flexibility toward positioning of the subject and transducer position on the chest to obtain the maximal anatomic and functional information. The echocardiographer needs a basic understanding of congenital heart disease as well as its natural and unnatural history to help anticipate the changing echocardiographic features and the late complications of congenital heart disease in the adult.