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Long-term outcomes after Fontan surgery

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The synopsis was written by Alexandra King, Associate Editor, Nature Clinical Practice.

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  1. The Cardiac Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA rychik@email.chop.edu

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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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Rychik, J. Long-term outcomes after Fontan surgery. Nat Rev Cardiol 5, 368–369 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpcardio1220

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