Abstract:Why are partial heart transplants important?'Partial heart transplantation' has generated media coverage recently and has been the topic of review articles in this journal 1 and elsewhere. 2 At first glance, this might seem like an interesting discussion topic but perhaps only applicable to a small number of patients, and performed by a handful of surgeons-a niche operation, so to speak. I suspect this is far from the case: instead, I think that this may lead to a paradigm shift in neonatal heart surgery and i… Show more
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