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To the Editor: Pulmonary hypertension is a rare complication of transposition of the great arteries.¹ As in other forms of primary pulmonary hypertension, the prognosis is poor, particularly in children who have symptoms.² Converting normal cardiac physiological features to features typical of Eisenmenger's syndrome by means of blade atrial septostomy has already been proposed for patients with this condition.³ But patients with severe right heart failure and markedly elevated pulmonary vascular resistance do not tolerate atrial septostomy, because massive right-to-left shunting may result in insufficient pulmonary blood flow and severe hypoxemia.

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