Rebuilding a whole heart for children born with only half of one
Using a combination of surgical procedures developed over the last 11 years, surgeons at Boston Children’s Hospital have established a new approach for rebuilding the heart in children born with a severe heart defect called hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS). This ‘staged left ventricle recruitment’ (SLVR) strategy uses the existing standard single-ventricle treatment for HLHS […]
