Family Functioning and Congenital Heart Disease

In the last decades, we have been watching a remarkable increase in survival of children with congenital heart disease (CHD), due to advances in surgical and medical management, leading to a significant growth in the number of adolescents and young adults with the disease. In developed countries, the number of adults with CHD surpasses the number of children with CHD. Unfortunately, prolonged survival has been achieved at a high cost, as an expressive number of patients continue to suffer from [...]