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Conditions treated by the Extra Corporeal Life Support Service
![Luca with nurse on Walrus Ward](https://media.gosh.nhs.uk/images/645f0d0b-98e7e052-18862f91-506a2ef0-f85aa3b9-e5.original.jpg)
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 Ayisha with Radiologist](https://media.gosh.nhs.uk/images/60d5e00b-0e3d5019-caa76aab-dee82642-48892ff2-f9.original.jpg)
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