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Patient Information Leaflets & Resources

Welcome to the service

A guide to the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Service

Parent/carers guide to the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Service

Coming to the Bristol Heart Institute (Day case unit)

Coming to the Bristol Heart Institute (Inpatient procedure)

Cardiac surgery

Help yourself to a healthy heart - preparing for heart surgery

Help yourself to a healthy heart - going home after heart surgery

Healthy heart rehabilitation start

Surgical option of tissues versus mechanical valve

Procedures

Closing your Patent Foramen Ovale without surgery

Closing your Atrial Septal Defect without surgery

Treating your coarctation by stent implantation

Catheter delivered Pulmonary Valve

Transcatheter Aortic Valve implantation

Lifestyle

Eating for your heart's sake

Contraception

Pregnancy

Travel information 

Employment/legal advice 

Resources

Grown up Congenital Heart Disease Patients Association (Somerville Foundation)

British Heart Foundation

American Heart Association

Canadian Adult Congenital Heart Network

For Images of Heart Disease

Information on Heart Disease for Young People: Y Heart & Hearts 4 Teens

European Society of Cardiology's guidelines on the Management of ACHD, 2010

ACC/AHA Guidelines for the Management of ACHD 2008

Arrhythmia alliance

Cardiomyopathy association

Pulmonary Hypertension association

Prophylaxis against infective endocarditis

South Wales and South West Congenital Heart Disease Network - Annual Report 2016-17