Abstract
Recently, the well-known American political commentator, Robert Kagan, reapplied an existing populist statement in describing Americans as being from Mars, and Europeans from Venus.1He said “they agree on little and understand one another less and less”. In general, it would be churlish to say that this applied to the medical fraternity, but it has great resonance with intercontinental differences in the management of hypoplastic left heart syndrome. In this review, I offer a personal view of those differences, potential explanations for them, and consider how the situation may change in coming years.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine,General Medicine,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
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