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Hypoplastic Left Heart syndrome

Background

Hypoplastic Left Heart syndrome (HLHS) is a complex congenital heart condition that occurs in 1 in 5,000 children. Currently two hundred diagnoses are made annually in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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Medical text written February 2002 by Left Heart Matters. Approved February 2002 by Dr O Stumper, Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist, Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham, UK.

 

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