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A European perspective on the management of hypoplastic left heart syndrome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2005

Martin J. Elliott
Martin J. Elliott
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Transplantation, The Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London, UK
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Recently, the well-known American political commentator, Robert Kagan, reapplied an existing populist statement in describing Americans as being from Mars, and Europeans from Venus.1 He said “they agree on little and understand one another less and less”. In general, it would be churlish to say that this applied to the medical fraternity, but it has great resonance with intercontinental differences in the management of hypoplastic left heart syndrome. In this review, I offer a personal view of those differences, potential explanations for them, and consider how the situation may change in coming years.

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Norwood Procedure and Staged Palliation
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Cardiology in the Young , Volume 14 , Issue S1 , February 2004 , pp. 41 - 46
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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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