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Ann Thorac Surg 2000;70:574
© 2000 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Invited commentary

Invited commentary

Section of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Erie Ave at Front St, Philadelphia, PA 19134–1095, USA

Invited commentary

Doctor Van Arsdell and colleagues have provided an interesting and important description of the evolution of treatment strategies that appear to have been associated with improved outcomes from Fontan’s operation. It is based upon a unique construct, wherein the 100 consecutive patients studied included 50 patients on either side of the inflection point of a graph plotting date of operation against early mortality. The authors do not suggest that they undertook a programmatic change in treatment protocols at the time corresponding to that inflection point. Rather, the analysis asks . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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