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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2009;138:1456
© 2009 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Reply to the Editor

Ashwin Prakash, MD

Department of Cardiology, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Mass

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We would like to thank Soueidi and colleagues for their thoughtful comments on our work. We agree that the decision to proceed with a Fontan operation is a delicate one with major implications for the child's future course. It is standard clinical practice to perform cardiac catheterization for preoperative evaluation. However, this practice is based on data from the 1970s and does not take into consideration advances in noninvasive imaging and changes in the characteristics of subjects presenting for . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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