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Original Articles: Adult Cardiac

Invited Commentary

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Yushima 1-45, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8510, Japan

(Email: n-tabu.tsrg@tmd.ac.jp).

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I congratulate Papadopoulos and colleagues [1] from Frankfurt on their outstanding outcomes for repair of postinfarction ventricular septal rupture. The infarct-exclusion technique was used in the ventricular septal repair of 32 patients, and the hospital mortality was 31.2%. Actual survival rates of in-hospital survivors at 5 and 10 years were 79% and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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