Failure to thrive is common in infants with hypoplastic left heart syndrome and its variants
and those with poor growth may be at risk for worse surgical and neurodevelopmental …

The management of congenital heart disease has changed dramatically over the last 15
years and continues to evolve at a rapid pace. More than ever before contemporary practice …

Improvement in operative survival of patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome has led to
increasing emphasis on prevention of interstage mortality. Many centres have improved …

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether early identification of physiologic variances associated
with interstage death would reduce mortality, we developed a home surveillance program …

Objective: To describe a 12 year experience with staged surgical management of the
hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) and to identify the factors that influenced outcome …

OBJECTIVE:: Perioperative mortality, prolonged postoperative recovery after the Norwood
procedure, and mortality between stage I and stage II might be related to shunt physiology. A …

OBJECTIVES: We analyze the effect of surgical case volume on the survival of infants with
hypoplastic left heart syndrome who underwent stage I surgical palliation (the Norwood …

Background Prenatal diagnosis of single ventricle‐type congenital heart disease is
associated with improved clinical courses. Prenatal counseling allows for optimal delivery …

BACKGROUND: Norwood outcomes vary across centers, and a relationship between center
volume and outcome has been previously described. It is unclear whether this volume …

Aim: Antenatal diagnosis of severe congenital heart disease enables planning of perinatal
care of affected infants. Congenital heart surgery is highly centralised in Australia, and …