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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:1501-1502
© 2006 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Nitric oxide precursors and congenital cardiac surgery: A randomized controlled trial of oral citrulline. Definition of pulmonary hypertension in Fontan circulation?

Maurice Beghetti, MD, Yacine Aggoun, MD, Eduardo Da Cruz, BSc, MD

Unité de Cardiologie Pédiatrique, Hopital des Enfants, Genève, Switzerland

(Email: Maurice.Beghetti@hcuge.ch).

The first 20% of the full text of this article appears below.

To the Editor:

We read with great interest the article from Smith and colleagues1Go describing the effect of citrulline supplementation in reducing postoperative pulmonary hypertension. This is very appealing therapy because it is reported to be effective and without any side effects.

Nevertheless, we have a concern with the definition of pulmonary hypertension. The authors have used the accepted definition of pulmonary hypertension as a mean pulmonary arterial pressure of at least . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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