Domain of congenital heart disease: past, present and future.

At the 2011 European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) meeting in Lisbon, the chairman, Juan Comas was able to thank the past chairman (Fig. 1) for developing the congenital domain and organising the annual meetings and education programmes. Since the inception of the congenital domain, there has been increasing involvement of the domain with the Association of European Paediatric Cardiology, and our American colleagues in North America. This has not only given European, but a worldwide, accent to our meetings.