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Surgical management of tetralogy of Fallot: where are we now and what is yet to come*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2014

Marshall L. Jacobs*
Affiliation:
Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiac Surgery, John Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Luca A. Vricella
Affiliation:
Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiac Surgery, John Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
*
Correspondence to: Dr M. L. Jacobs MD, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 1800 Orleans Street, Sheikh Zayed Tower/Suite 7107, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, United States of America. Tel: +410-955-2800; Fax: +410-502-2399; E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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Footnotes

*

Presented at “The Birth of Heart Surgery: Lessons Learned from Tetralogy – Past, Present and Future” Dinner Symposium sponsored by Johns Hopkins Medicine and All Children's Hospital, Thursday, February 21, 2013, at The Sixth World Congress of Paediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, South Africa, February 17–22, 2013. A video of this presentation can be viewed at the following hyperlink: [http://www.allkids.org/wcpccs].

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