Abstract

The advent of fetal echocardiography rapidly confirmed what cardiac morphologists had long hypothesized in that some developing hearts start out normal in early gestation, and due to an intrauterine event that results in changed blood flow patterns, develop severe and uncorrectable defects develop by the time the child is born. As evidence for this has accumulated, it has brought a new challenge for congenital heart surgeons to address the problem of restoring normal blood flow pattern and hopefully normal growth in the fetus.

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