Editorial
Living with a univentricular heart
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The Paris group of Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades have reviewed 89 patients who have grown up with a univentricular heart, and their findings are presented in this issue of Heart.1 First we should congratulate Saliba and his colleagues for undertaking this study and providing the data. In an editorial in Heart in 1993 Fallowfield wrote " . . .cardiologists have been slow to routinely employ appropriate measures to assess quality of life."2 Since then there have been 145 papers in the British Heart Journal or in Heart with "quality of life" in the title or abstract. Cardiologists have risen to the challenge.
At the time of Saliba's survey the 89 patients ranged in age from
17-49 years with a median of 21 years, and we can deduce that the ages
are bunched around the late teens and early 20s. Most have undergone
palliative procedures including venous (cavopulmonary or right
atriopulmonary shunts) or arterial (aortopulmonary shunt) diversion.
Four have
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