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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003;126:304-305
© 2003 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the editor

Reply to the editor

Cornelius Borst, MD, PhDa, Jan H. R. Eikelaar, MDa, Rudy Meijera, Wim Jan van Boven, MDb, Patrick Kleina, Paul F. Gründeman, MD, PhDa

a Department of Cardiologya, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
b Department of Cardiothoracic Surgeryb, St Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands

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We appreciate the letter by Suematsu and Takamoto in response to our work1 and share their view2 that the introduction of beating-heart coronary surgery3 warrants a renewed look at the potential diagnostic merits and limitations of epicardial ultrasonography with a high-frequency minitransducer.1,2,4 They are correct in delineating the frequency band of the Aloka minitransducer in greater detail in its B-mode and its color Doppler mode.

One important feature of this transducer is its small size (16 x 6 x 9 mm). . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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