TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Chapter 10. Single-Ventricle Congenital Heart Disease A1 - O'Connor, Matthew J. A1 - Goldberg, David J. A1 - Rychik, Jack A2 - Gleason, Marie Murphy A2 - Rychik, Jack A2 - Shaddy, Robert PY - 2012 T2 - Pediatric Practice: Cardiology AB - In general, the most complex forms of congenital heart disease (CHD) fall into the category of single-ventricle defects. Only in recent decades has survival beyond the neonatal period become the norm in the developed world, owing to a number of factors, namely the introduction of prostaglandin infusion, innovative surgical strategies such as the Norwood procedure, accurate postnatal noninvasive assessment through echocardiography, and improvements in prenatal diagnosis. Today, surgical palliation of single-ventricle CHD is expected to result in favorable short- and long-term outcomes into early adulthood for most patients. With the improvement in survival in recent decades, attention is now being turned toward optimizing long-term outcomes and addressing the many functional limitations still experienced by survivors of single-ventricle CHD. SN - PB - The McGraw-Hill Companies CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/11/07 UR - accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=56747028 ER -