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To the Editor: Autologous pericardium has been used for angioplasty in pediatric cardiovascular surgery with good results, except in the case of the pulmonary valve.¹ However, we know of no report on the histology of implanted autologous pericardium. We describe here the histology at three years of pulmonary arteries reconstructed with the use of autologous pericardium.

Patient 1, a seven-year-old girl whose right ventricle had a double outlet and who had pulmonary atresia, had undergone pulmonary-artery angioplasty with the use of autologous pericardium three years earlier, at the age of four. Angiography performed at seven years of age revealed sufficient . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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