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Ann Thorac Surg 2005;79:36-37
© 2005 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Ospedale Bambino Gesù, Piazza S. Onofrio 4, 00165Rome, Italy

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Berdat and coworkers have supplied one of the most suggestive contributions to the thesis that additional pulmonary blood flow, while providing higher oxygen saturation, has no adverse effect on clinical and functional outcome after cavopulmonary anastomosis. For the sake of discussion, however, I should raise some observations. First, this is not a prospective randomized study, and the three groups of patients considered are not totally comparable, particularly in terms of age at surgery. Second, some of the findings are . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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