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Ann Thorac Surg 1996;61:1338
© 1996 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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DR DONALD C. WATSON, JR (Memphis, TN): Doctor Mavroudis was very kind to allow my review of this paper before this session. It is a very elegant description of double-outlet right ventricle, the options for treatment, and a detailed description of his patients.

Doctor Mavroudis, this is a rare abnormality, as you pointed out. In your experience you have 20 patients over about 10 years. There are a few observations that I wanted to make. One is that the death with arterial switch operation apparently occurred early in your experience and was related to myocardial insufficiency, coronary anatomy insufficiency. The reoperative rate in your arterial switch group also included reoperations that were not related to the operative technique per se. Specifically, they were . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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