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Objective: Previous studies suggest that children with congenital cardiac diagnoses report lower quality of life when compared with healthy norms. A few studies have evaluated quality of life specifically in children born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a condition requiring several surgeries before age three. The aim of this study was to use an empirically validated and standardised measure - the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory - to evaluate quality of life in children with hypoplastic left heart syndrome and compare the findings with similar, medically complicated samples.

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