[The best of congenital heart disease in 2006].

As in previous years, the end of 2005 and the year 2006 were very fruitful in publications on congenital heart disease in children and adults. Interventional cardiology is still the object of randomised and non-randomised trials in adults and children. The closure of the foramen ovale is still popular in the context of a cerebrovascular accident whether or not associated with migraine. Several articles have studied the percutaneous closure of atrial septal defects: different devices, different indications, complications, comparison with surgical closure. Some ventricular septal defects can be occluded by the percutaneous approach. Another subject of interest has been theuse of the cutting balloon in peripheral pulmonary stenosis and the implantation of stents in obstruction of conduits between the right ventricle and pulmonary artery. The problem of arrhythmias in congenital heart disease is of increasing interest: the implantable automatic defibrillator, resynchronisation, thromboembolic complications, atrial flutter in babies. The outcome of congenital heart disease is a subject of great interest to paediatric cardiologists who follow up patients operated for transposition of the great arteries, tetralogy of Fallot or complex congenital heart disease by Fontan's procedure in their infancy. The results in women operated in their childhood are of particular interest: fertility and pregnancy in different cardiac lesions, complications during and after pregnancy.