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European Heart Journal 2003 24(19):1797; doi:10.1016/S0195-668X(03)00474-3
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Letter to the Editor

Closure of atrial septal defect: is the debate over?

U.J. Thilen*

Department of Cardiology, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden

* Correspondence to: Tel: +46 46 17 26 33; Fax: +46 46 15 78 57
E-mail address: ulf.thilen@skane.se

Received 30 April 2003; accepted 20 June 2003

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Swan and Gatzoulis put the question above in their editorial1related to the study by Roos-Hesselink and co-workers in the same issue.2They state that early closure of an atrial septal defect is the key to prevention of late arrhythmia and the end goes ‘Yes, close . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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