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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2009;137:354
© 2009 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

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Dr Winfield J. Wells (Los Angeles, Calif). First, congratulations. Doing a long-term follow-up study on more than 900 patients is a lot of work. I can't imagine how long this took. As I read the manuscript, it seemed to me that the most relevant information came from your analysis of the long-term outcomes of the arterial switch subgroup. The atrial switch results are interesting from a historical standpoint, but the arterial switch patients are of greatest interest. My questions are therefore limited to those in the arterial switch subgroup.

First, in your title you mention freedom from reoperation, but what about other reinterventions? I'm sure that the cardiologists in Germany must be performing percutaneous interventions, just as they are here in North . . . [Full Text of this Article]