Yáñez-Gutiérrez L

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Pediatric cardiology, as a specialty dedicated to the study of Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) is due large efforts by physicians from different fields and is remounted from ancient history, to the XIX century and current age. It would be impossible not to mention the names such as Fallot, Blalock and Taussig, Rastelli, Jatene or Fontan, among others, all of them, at their times, made significant contributions to the field of CC and to innovative technologies that include the development of extracorporeal circulation, percutaneous procedures, and the development of better prosthetic materials, stents, occlusive devices and, recently, valvular endoprothesis, which have allowed the reparation both physiologic and anatomic of the heart thus modifying the natural course of these diseases.