title: Bioethics and medicine.
abstract: The difficult ethical choice to be made between 'extraordinary' treatment or no treatment is discussed with reference to hypoplastic left heart syndrome, which affects a number of neonates each year. The treatment involves heart transplantation and xenotransplantation, which on their own bring about a host of problems.
authors.affiliation: National Bioethics Committee, Bambino Gesù Hospital, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Marcelleti
mesh_terms: D002410:Catholicism; D002651:Child Advocacy; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D016027:Heart Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects; D006801:Humans; D018636:Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome / Q000601:surgery*; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D014183:Transplantation, Heterologous