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Conditions treated by the Extra Corporeal Life Support Service
The Extra Corporeal Life Support Service is part of the Cardiorespiratory Unit at Great Ormond Street Hospital which treats the following conditions:
- coarctation of the aorta (aortic arch obstruction)
- aortic regurgitation
- aortic valve stenosis
- atrial septal defect (ASD)
- atrioventricular septal defect
- cardiomyopathy and myocarditis
- common arterial trunk (truncus arteriosus)
- congenital heart disease
- functionally univentricular heart (includes tricuspid atresia, double inlet left ventricle)
- hypoplastic left heart syndrome
- interrupted aortic arch
- Marfan's syndrome
- mitral valve abnormality
- patent ductus arteriosus (PDA)
- primary pulmonary hypertension
- pulmonary atresia
- pulmonary stenosis
Patient having an ultrasound
- severe heart failure in infants and children (mechanical circulatory support)
- severe respiratory failure in neonates and children (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation)
- tetralogy of Fallot
- totally anomolous pulmonary venous connection
- tracheal stenosis
- tracheo/bronchomalacia
- transposition of the great arteries (TGA)
- tricuspid valve abnormalities, including Ebsteins
- ventricular septal defect (VSD)
- inherited heart conditions
- endocarditis
- heart murmur
- heart transplant
- lung transplant
- Kawasaki syndrome
- rhythm disorders