The arterial duct and the right aortic arch : telescope into the prenatal defective heart

Abstract

Progress in the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of congenital cardiovascular anomalies began when dr Helen Taussig founded the pediatric cardiology clinic at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore in 1930 and the very first surgical procedure was the ligation of a patent ductus arteriosus by dr Robert Gross at the Children's Hospital in Boston in 1938. Since then an explosion of imaging innovations have kept pace with numerous surgical and percutaneous interventions in the treatment of congenital cardiovascular diseases.