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Original Articles: Cardiovascular

Invited commentary

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, PO Box 9600, Leiden 2300 RC, the Netherlands

(Email: m.g.hazekamp@lumc.nl).

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A bicuspid pulmonary valve is sometimes found in association with transposition of the great arteries (TGA). After the arterial switch operation the pulmonary valve will become the new aortic valve; therefore it is important to know the fate of a bicuspid pulmonary valve in the systemic circulation.

Khan and colleagues [1] observed a 7% incidence of bicuspid pulmonary valve in their series of 391 arterial switch operations. For unknown reasons this is higher than the prevalence that is reported in other series (ie, 3.2% in Leiden, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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