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Classifying pulmonary hypertension in the setting of the congenitally malformed heart – cleaning up a dog’s dinner

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2008

Ingram Schulze-Neick  and
Maurice Beghetti
Ingram Schulze-Neick*
Affiliation:
National UK Service for Pulmonary Hypertension in Children, Cardiac Unit, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, United Kingdom
Maurice Beghetti
Affiliation:
Pediatric Cardiogy Unit, Département de l’enfant et de l’adolescent, University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland
*
National UK Service for Pulmonary Hypertension in Children, Cardiac Unit, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London WC1N 3JH, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 (0)207 405 9200 ext 1005/1007/6707; Fax: +44 (0)207 905 2321; E-mail: neicki@gosh.nhs.uk
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Cardiology in the Young , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , February 2008 , pp. 22 - 25
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