Hypoplastic left heart syndrome: experience with palliative surgery.
Aortic atresia is a form of hypoplastic left heart syndrome always complicated by associated severe hypoplasia of the ascending aorta and various degrees of mitral valve and left ventricular hypoplasia. At present it is a universally fatal lesion in early infancy. This is a report of a new palliative procedure for hypoplastic left heart syndrome that has resul;ed in early ongoing survival of two infants with aortic atresia. On the basis of experience with a third patient, an operation for future physiologic correction is proposed.
D001011:Aorta / Q000601:surgery; D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000002:abnormalities; D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000601:surgery; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000002:abnormalities; D009026:Mortality; D010166:Palliative Care; D011379:Prognosis; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000601:surgery; D011652:Pulmonary Circulation; D013577:Syndrome; D014655:Vascular Resistance