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We are grateful to Dr Scott's kind comments and highlighting an important point. In our table, we combined all reported mortality both operative and long-term deaths as reporting of mortality differs between centres. The Stanford series report operative deaths only [1], whilst Dr. Scott's experience report no operative mortality and two remote deaths [2]. Other series do not report long-term outcome to inform on long-term mortalilty [3]. Our own experience reports no operative deaths or long-term mortality at 2.8 years (0.4–13.8) of follow-up. We would agree that the literature and our experience suggest negligible operative mortality.
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Ng, J., Thompson, D., Lumley, J.P.S. et al. Response letter to editor—surgical revascularisation for childhood moyamoya. Childs Nerv Syst 28, 1677 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-012-1882-x
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