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The Genetic Landscape of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome.
Pediatric cardiology - 1 Aug 2018
Yagi Hisato, Liu Xiaoqin, Gabriel George C, Wu Yijen, Peterson Kevin, Murray Stephen A, Aronow Bruce J, Martin Lisa J, Benson D Woodrow, Lo Cecilia W
Abstract excerpt
Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) is one of the most lethal congenital heart defects, and remains clinically challenging. While surgical palliation allows most HLHS patients to survive their critical heart disease with a single-ventricle physiology, many will suffer heart failure, requiring heart transplantation as the only therapeutic course. Current paradigm suggests HLHS is largely of hemodynamic origin,...
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