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Original Articles: Pediatric Cardiac

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Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, 1365 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA 30322

(Email: kkanter@emory.edu).

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This sobering article by Ovroutski and colleagues [1] compares angiographic measurements of the pulmonary artery diameter in 35 patients before and after a Fontan procedure at a median of 4.6 years after the Fontan procedure. The authors documented that although there was good somatic growth in these patients, the pulmonary artery diameters did not increase at all with the results that the pulmonary artery index and the lower lobe index decreased significantly in the follow-up period. Disturbingly, there was a statistically significant . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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