Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
Contributors: Hani A. Hennein (Editor); Edward L. Bove (Editor)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: June 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780879937041
Subjects: Cardiovascular medicine; surgery; Medical; Congenital heart disease in children; Medical / Nursing; diagnosis; Surgery - Thoracic; Cardiology; Pediatrics; CHILDREN_DISEASES; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; Medical / Pediatrics; Congenital heart disease in ch; Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrom; Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
First sentence: Initially called hypoplasia of the aortic tract complexes by Lev in 1952, these anomalies were definitively christened by Noonan and Nadas in 1958 as the hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS).