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Strategies For Treating Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
Hypoplastic left heart syndrome is a type of congenital heart defect that affects the left side of the heart. In patients ...
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Center Volume and Outcomes in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
Outcome Relationship of Norwood Procedures: Insights from the National Pediatric Cardiology – Quality Improvement ...
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Meet Jake: Survivor of a rare congenital heart defect, lover of trains
Jake was born with half of a heart in 2010. It’s a congenital heart defect called hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) ...
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Teenager receives heart transplant after 12-hour surgery
PORT ANGELES — Landon Smith, a 19-year-old from Port Angeles who was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, received a heart transplant this week. He had been on the transplant waiting list for ...
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Multidisciplinary research team creates computational models to predict heart valve leakage in children
In hypoplastic left heart syndrome, about 25% of patients have ... leakage six months to two years after the initial surgical repair, for reasons that are not yet understood.