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Original Articles: Pediatric Cardiac

Invited Commentary

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Brompton Hospital, Sydney St, London SW3 6NP, United Kingdom

(Email: huemura-cvs@umin.ac.jp).

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Reports regarding repair of partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection (PAPVC) primarily present surgical procedures and results with short-term or intermediate-term follow-up. In this respect, the present study of superior sinus venosus defect by Luciani and colleagues [1] is informative. This defect is often discussed under the heading of secundum atrial septal defect (ASD), because of equivalent physiology. From a morphologic view, this malformation is regarded as deficient septation at the veno-atrial junction between the right superior pulmonary veins, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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