The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 140, Issue 3 , Pages 514-521 , September 2010

Atrioventricular valve repair in patients with functional single ventricle

Read at the Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Western Thoracic Surgical Association, June 24-27, 2009, Banff, Alberta, Canada.

  • Tomohiro Nakata, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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  • Yoshifumi Fujimoto, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Shizuoka Children's Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan
    • ,
  • Keiichi Hirose, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Shizuoka Children's Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan
    • ,
  • Yuko Tosaka, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Shizuoka Children's Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan
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  • Yujiro Ide, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Shizuoka Children's Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan
    • ,
  • Maiko Tachi, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Shizuoka Children's Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan
    • ,
  • Kisaburo Sakamoto, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Shizuoka Children's Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for reprints: Kisaburo Sakamoto, MD, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Shizuoka Children's Hospital, 860 Urushiyama Aoi-ku, Shizuoka 420-8660, Japan.

Received 19 June 2009 ,Revised 24 April 2010 ,Accepted 14 May 2010.

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 Disclosures: None.

PII: S0022-5223(10)00492-7

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2010.05.024

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 140, Issue 3 , Pages 514-521 , September 2010

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