2026 Scientific Sessions

Time to Restrict!

This session focuses on flow restriction strategies to optimize physiology in congenital heart disease. Topics include pulmonary flow restrictors, managing overcirculation in shunts and PDA stents, Fontan flow modulation, and septal fenestration in complex cases. Faculty will share practical techniques and decision-making frameworks for balancing circulatory dynamics in high-risk patients.
Introductory Remarks
Pulmonary Flow Restrictors: What We Know and What We're Learning
Daisuke Kobayashi, MD, MPH, FSCAI, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO
Dialing It Back: Managing Over Circulation in BTTs and PDA Stent
Shyam K. Sathanandam, M.D., FSCAI, Nicklaus Children's Hospital, Pinecrest, FL
Not Too Fast, Not Too Slow: Managing Fontane Flow
Jenny E. Zablah, M.D., FSCAI, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO
Strategic Septal Fenestration in Tough Physiology
James Kuo, M.D., FSCAI, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Decatur, GA