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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2004;127:607
© 2004 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the editor

Reply to the Editor

John A. Elefteriades, MD, Gary S. Kopf, MD

Section of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

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We appreciate the kind comments of Dr Corno in his letter regarding our article.1 We also appreciate his astute delineation of the categories of congenital conditions in which our technique could be applied clinically. We wish to emphasize, however, that ours is at this point an experimental technique, confined to short-term application in the experimental laboratory. We are not advocating clinical application at this time.

To address Dr Corno's specific comments, we need to distinguish between two different experimental procedures developed in our laboratory, which are easily confused because both rely on surgical separation of the right and left ventricles into independent units. In the experiments to which the letter is addressed, we transplanted an . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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