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Figure 1 Long-term outcome of patients surviving the perioperative period according to age at operative closure of their atrial septal defect. Expected survival in an age- and gender-matched control population is also shown. When patients undergo repair  25 years of age, survival is significantly reduced compared with control subjects. Reprinted, with permission, from Murphy et al. (2).
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