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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2004;128:331
© 2004 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the editor

Reply to the Editor

Willem J. L. Suyker, MDa,c, Marc P. Buijsrogge, MD, PhDa, Paul T. W. Suyker, MSc, MBAc, Cees W. J. Verlaanb, Cornelius Borst, MD, PhDb, Paul F. Gründeman, MD, PhDb

a Isala Clinics, Zwolle, The Netherlands
b Heart Lung Center Utrecht, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
c iiTech BV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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We appreciate Dr Konstantinov's encouraging words and fascinating account of the early pioneering work on coronary staplers by Drs Demikhov and Kolesov. We believe that the S2 connector design is about to overcome the 3 main obstacles that, according to Dr Konstantinov, to date have precluded the use of coronary staplers as invented in the 1950s and 1960s.

First, S2 coronary stapling is an easier and faster bypass grafting method than suturing manually. In subsequent open-chest, . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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