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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2008;136:1393
© 2008 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Contegra and extracardiac Fontan

Sameh Ibrahim Sersar, MD, Ahmed A. Jamjoom, MD

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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To the Editor:

We read with the greatest interest the article entitled "Feasibility of the Extracardiac Conduit Fontan Procedure in Patients Weighing Less than 10 Kilograms."1Go After congratulating the authors for their excellent work, we have a few comments.

As a Fontan Conduit, they used polytetrafluoroethylene (Gore-Tex; WL Gore & Associates Inc, Flagstaff, Ariz) (14–20 mm in diameter) King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Jeddah, used Contegra valved conduits in 4 patients for . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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