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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2004;26:1226-1227
© 2004 Elsevier Science NL

Letter to the Editor

REV (Lecompte) procedure: how much better than the Rastelli operation?

Dipartimento Medico-Chirurgico di Cardiologia Pediatrica, Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù,Roma, Italy

Received 30 June 2004; accepted 24 August 2004.

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In a interesting article recently published in the EJCTS [1], Lee and co-workers compare their results with the Rastelli operation and the REV procedure (termed by the authors "Lecompte procedure") for patients with Transposition of the great arteries, ventricular septal defect and left ventricular outflow tract obstruction (TGA, VSD, LVOTO). Late results differed significantly in the two surgical groups: reoperations for right/left ventricular outflow tract obstruction (RVOTO, LVOTO) were more frequent in the Rastelli group, so that freedom from reoperation proportion was 40% for the Rastelli group and 96% for the REV group. Other institutions, who had the opportunity . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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