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. 2010 Mar 1;169(8):975–981. doi: 10.1007/s00431-010-1160-4

Table 1.

Types of critical congenital heart disease (cCHD) defined as target lesions for pulse oximetry screening (POS)

Duct-dependent systemic circulation
 Interrupted aortic arch
 Complex/critical coarctation of the aorta
 Hypoplastic left heart syndrome
 Critical aortic valve stenosis
Duct-dependent pulmonary circulation
 Pulmonary atresia—various forms
 Variants of congenital heart disease with severe pulmonary stenosis/atresia
 Critical pulmonary valve stenosis
Total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage
Transposition of the great arteries
Complex cyanotic congenital heart disease
 Transposition of the great arteries—ventricular septal defect
 Functional univentricular heart—various forms