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Ann Thorac Surg 1996;62:76-77
© 1996 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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DR DAVID A. FULLERTON (Denver, CO): I congratulate you, Dr Bando, on a beautiful presentation. In your characteristic style, it was very crisp and very clear. I also congratulate the group at Indiana University on a superb clinical experience. I think those of us involved in infant heart transplantation can appreciate that this is a very difficult group of patients, and your results are clearly among the best reported.

I believe this is an important clinical series for a couple of reasons, but primarily because it demonstrates that within one institution, the group of physicians involved can offer two methods of treatment and perform each quite well. For instance, at my institution, we have elected to do transplantation for all of these infants. In recent years, other groups in addition to yours have demonstrated success with the Norwood procedure, and so the pendulum is beginning to swing the other way. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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