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Preoperative Venovenous ECMO in an Infant With Late Diagnosis of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
Lena K Eschenbach1, Jelena Kasnar-Samprec1, Kilian Ackermann2
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, German Heart Center Munich, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany.
Abstract:
Late diagnosis and late referral for the Norwood stage 1 procedure in patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome is rare and associated with a higher mortality. We present a case of a cyanotic almost five-week-old infant with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, highly restrictive foramen ovale, and patent ductus arteriosus, who was bridged with venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation to the Norwood stage 1 procedure.

