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Postoperative Ventricular Septal Defect: Twenty-four-to-Thirty Year Follow-up of 245 Patients

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Pediatric Cardiology

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From 1954–1960, 325 patients underwent surgical closure of ventricular septal defect (VSD) at the University of Minnesota Hospitals. Twenty-seven were performed using a cross-circulation technique, and the remaining 298 were done by a bubble oxygenator.

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Moller, J.H., Patton, C., Varco, R.L., Lillehei, C.W. (1986). Postoperative Ventricular Septal Defect: Twenty-four-to-Thirty Year Follow-up of 245 Patients. In: Doyle, E.F., Engle, M.A., Gersony, W.M., Rashkind, W.J., Talner, N.S. (eds) Pediatric Cardiology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8598-1_339

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