Physician counseling, informed consent and parental decision making for infants with hypoplastic left-heart syndrome
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Hypoplastic left heart syndrome: parent support for early decision making.
Hypoplastic left heart syndrome is a life threatening congenital cardiac anomaly. After a child has been diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, parents must make life or death decisions within days of birth. Healthcare providers must provide appropriate education so that parents are able to make informed, timely decisions. Information regarding the diagnosis, treatment options, and par...
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Hypoplastic left heart syndrome may be accurately diagnosed during fetal life. Prenatal diagnosis provides the opportunity for parents to make an informed choice about their options, including surgery, nonintervention postnatally or termination of pregnancy. Short to medium term survival continues to improve for a condition that was previously invariably lethal. There continues to be a signific...
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OBJECTIVE To explore clinical outcomes and secondary diagnoses present at discharge for infants born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), from a national perspective. METHODS We examined hospitalizations for infants < or =30 days of age who were born with HLHS, using hospital discharge data from the 1997 Kids Inpatient Database. To explore treatment choices, clinical outcomes, and res...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Perinatology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0743-8346,1476-5543
DOI: 10.1038/jp.2012.72