Bioethics and medicine.
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.
Marcelleti
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National Bioethics Committee, Bambino Gesù Hospital, Rome, Italy.
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