Choices physicians would make if they were the parents of a child with hypoplastic left heart syndrome.

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Published in Am J Cardiol on June 15, 2003

Authors

Alexander A Kon1, Lynn Ackerson, Bernard Lo

Author Affiliations

1: Section of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, University of California-Davis, Ticon II, Room 228, 2516 Stockton Boulevard, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA. aakon@ucdavis.edu

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