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Ann Thorac Surg 2001;71:76-77
© 2001 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Invited commentary: original article: cardiovascular

Invited commentary

^a Nemours Cardiac Center, A. I. Dupont Hospital for Children, PO Box 269, 1600 Rockland Rd, Wilmington, DE 19899, USA

e-mail: mainwar@nemours.org

The authors describe their experience with 33 patients in whom they performed an extracardiac Fontan procedure. The hospital mortality was 6% and there was no late mortality, with a median follow-up of 16.5 months. These results indicate the feasibility of this approach; however, the authors do not answer the question that they propose in their introduction: whether extracardiac Fontan will have any real long-term advantages.

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