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Long-term outcomes after Fontan surgery

Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine volume 5, pages 368–369 (2008)Cite this article

Khairy P et al. (2008) Long-term survival, modes of death, and predictors of mortality in patients with Fontan surgery. Circulation 117: 85–92

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  1. J Rychik is Director of the Fetal Heart Program at the Cardiac Center at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.,

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