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The operations we can perform are:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Closure of atrial septal defect (ASD)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Closure open foramen ovale (PFO)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Closure ventricular septal defect (membranous VSD, muscular VSD)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Closure patent ductus arteriosus (PDA)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Angioplasty for coarctation of the aorta (CoA)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Valvuloplasty for congenital aortic valve stenosis<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Angioplasty for supra-valvular aortic stenosis<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Angioplasty for stenosis of pulmonary arteries<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Valvuloplasty for pulmonary valve stenosis<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Percutaneous implantation of prosthetic pulmonary valve (Melody) in graft (conduit) degeneration, in patients who have had surgery for Tetralogy Fallot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apostolostzikas.gr\/en\" rel=\"author\">Dr. Apostolos Tzikas, Interventional Cardiologist<wbr \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congenital heart disease &#8211; Modern treatment options In the cath lab we can treat a significant number of congenital heart diseases. An important prerequisite before the procedure, is an accurate diagnosis and discussion of the individual patient with a team &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apostolostzikas.gr\/en\/interventional-cardiology-for-congenital-heart-disease\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Interventional cardiology for congenital heart disease<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[71,58,57,59,67,66,69,17,18,56,35,62,63,64,65,12,60,73,27,72,70,13,68,61],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congenital-heart-desease","tag-angioplasty","tag-asd","tag-closure-of-atrial-septal-defect","tag-closure-open-foramen-ovale","tag-coa","tag-coarctation-of-the-aorta-angioplasty","tag-congenital-aortic-valve-stenosis","tag-degeneration-of-conduit","tag-graft","tag-heart-team","tag-melody-valve","tag-membranous-vsd","tag-muscular-vsd","tag-patent-ductus-arteriosus","tag-pda","tag-percutaneous-implantation","tag-pfo","tag-pulmonary-valve","tag-pulmonary-valve-stenosis","tag-stenosis-of-pulmonary-arteries","tag-supra-valvular-aortic-stenosis","tag-tetralogy-of-fallot","tag-valvuloplasty","tag-ventricular-septal-defect"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Congenital heart disease Intervention, A.Tzikas, Invasive Cardiologist<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Congenital heart disease - Modern treatment options. 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