Ann Thorac Surg 2009;88:593. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.05.029
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Original Articles: Pediatric Cardiac
Invited Commentary
Richard Jonas, MD
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Children's National Medical Center, 111 Michigan Ave NW, Washington, DC 20010
(Email: rjonas@cnmc.org).
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Supravalvar aortic stenosis is a rare lesion. In the early years of congenital cardiac surgery, it was managed in the same way as any circumferential stenosis by using a simple single-patch plasty technique. Doty contributed an important advance with the introduction of the inverted bifurcated patch. Although Doty's technique effectively enlarges the circumference of the sinotubular ridge, which is usually the site of most severe stenosis, it does not provide a symmetric reconstruction or enlargement of . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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