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Hiroki Matsuzoe, Hidekazu Tanaka, Keiko Hatazawa, Yutaka Hatani, Kensuke Matsumoto, Toshiro Shinke, and Ken-ichi Hirata declare that they received no funding.
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Matsuzoe, H., Tanaka, H., Hatazawa, K. et al. Transcatheter closure for residual atrial septal defect resulting from surgical patch closure 44 years previously. J Echocardiogr 16, 150–151 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12574-017-0368-y
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