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What is the preferred therapy for patients with aortic coarctation – The standard gamble and decision analysis versus real results?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2007

Tjark Ebels ,
Bohdan Maruszewski  and
Eugene H. Blackstone
Tjark Ebels*
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Bohdan Maruszewski
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Children’s Memorial Health Institute, Warsaw, Poland
Eugene H. Blackstone
Affiliation:
Deptartment of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
*
Correspondence to: Prof Dr Tjark Ebels, MD, Chief, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen, P O Box 30.001, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands. Tel: +31 (0)50 361 3238; Fax: +31 (0)50 361 1347; E-mail: T.Ebels@thorax.umcg.nl
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Cardiology in the Young , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , February 2008 , pp. 18 - 21
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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