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Staged reconstructive surgery – the most appropriate therapy for hypoplastic left heart syndrome
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 September 2005
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I am grateful for the opportunity to participate in this debate forum, and for the honor of exchanging concepts with Len Bailey. This debate, fortunately, represents a “win-win” situation. The innovations and evolution of both replacement of the heart and reconstructive surgery for hypoplastic left heart syndrome are stories with lots of winners. The entire field of transplantation biology, the entire scope of management of the newborn with complex congenital heart disease, including both medical and supportive therapy and surgical strategies, has each been advanced tremendously as a consequence of the introduction and refinement of these two very different therapies for hypoplastic left heart syndrome. So, it is a debate that cannot be lost.
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