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Single Ventricle: General Aspects

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This chapter provides an overview of the very basic aspects of the diagnosis and management of patients with single ventricle anatomy or physiology. Specific chapters elsewhere in this book will further discuss the Fontan physiology and the hypoplastic left and right heart syndromes.

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  1. Associate Medical Director, CHCO Heart Institute, Head, Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Program & Inpatient Services, Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Tenured Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiology and Intensive Care, University of Colorado Denver, School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA

    Eduardo M. da Cruz

  2. Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Program, Heart Institute, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado Denver School of Medecine, Aurora, CO, USA

    Jonathan Kaufman

  3. cMRI and Clinical Informatics, Heart Institute, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado Denver School of Medecine, Aurora, CO, USA

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  4. Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Wolfson Children’s Hospital, Jacksonville, FL, USA

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  5. Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart Institute, Children’s Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA

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da Cruz, E.M., Kaufman, J., Fonseca, B., Turbendian, H.K., Jaggers, J. (2020). Single Ventricle: General Aspects. In: Munoz, R., Morell, V., da Cruz, E., Vetterly, C., da Silva, J. (eds) Critical Care of Children with Heart Disease . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21870-6_30

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