In the recent era, no congenital heart defect has undergone a more dramatic change in
diagnostic approach, management, and outcomes than hypoplastic left heart syndrome …

This 8th Edition of Moss and Adams' Heart Disease in Infants, Children, and Adolescents:
Including the Fetus and Young Adult, provides updated and useful information from leading …

Cardiac embyogenesis occurs in the first 6 to 7 weeks of human development. Although it is
during this time that many of the major cardiovascular defects develop, many of these …

Background—Fetal aortic valvuloplasty can be performed for severe midgestation aortic
stenosis in an attempt to prevent progression to hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS). A …

Background—Aortic stenosis in the midgestation fetus with a normal-sized or dilated left
ventricle predictably progresses to hypoplastic left heart syndrome when associated with …

Background—Preventing the progression of fetal aortic stenosis (AS) to hypoplastic left heart
syndrome (HLHS) requires identification of fetuses with salvageable left hearts who would …

Background Isolated case reports that suggest the potential for development of left heart
hypoplasia late in gestation provide the only information about the in utero natural history of …

Objectives Fetal aortic valvuloplasty (FAV) may prevent progression of mid‐gestation aortic
stenosis to hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS). The aim of this study was to evaluate …

The Norwood surgical procedure restores functional systemic circulation in neonatal
patients with single ventricle congenital heart defects, but this complex procedure carries a …

OBJECTIVE: To document the growth of the left heart structures and outcome of fetuses with
aortic stenosis. DESIGN: Retrospective echocardiographic and clinical study. SETTING …