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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2003;23:136
© 2003 Elsevier Science NL

Letter to the Editor

DORV with non-committed VSD and Taussig-Bing hearts. Controversial anatomic entities

Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Children's Hospital La Fe, Valencia and Children's Hospital Sant Joan de Deu, Barcelona, Spain

Received 26 July 2002; received in revised form 26 July 2002; accepted 27 September 2002.

* Corresponding author
e-mail: josecaffarena@telefonica.net

Key Words: Double outlet right ventricle • Non-committed ventricular septal defect

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We read, with interest, the excellent paper by Lacour-Gayet et al. [1], regarding the biventricular repair of double outlet right ventricle (DORV) with non-committed ventricular septal defect (VSD) using the arterial switch operation. Congratulations for such excellent results.

We have a very different point of view regarding the type of hearts the authors are describing in their paper and about the concept of Taussig-Bing hearts.

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