RE: Endovascular Treatment of Congenital Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunts with Amplatzer Plugs
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Received August 2, 2011; accepted after revision August 3, 2011. Corresponding author: Sergio Sierre, MD, Department of Interventional Radiology, Hospital Nacional de Pediatria “JP Garrahan”, Combate de los Pozos 1881 (1245), Buenos AiresArgentina. • Tel: (5411) 4308-4330 (x1283) • Fax: (5411) 4308-5325 • E-mail: [email protected] This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. error related to a claimed statement of primacy, specifically about the use of this kind of device for this indication as mentioned in the fifth paragraph of the discussion section. In our paper entitled “Endovascular treatment of congenital portal vein fistulas with the Amplatzer occlusion device” published in the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology in 2004, we already reported the use of the AVP in the treatment of an intrahepatic portosystemic venous shunt (2). This situation does not undervalue the quality of the reported case, but for didactic purposes, we believe it is important to state that the work of Dr. Lee confirms, as was previously reported, that these devices are useful and safe for these rare situations. Sincerely yours,
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