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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;131:1419
© 2006 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Tubular heart valves

Ann Arbor, Mich

The first 20% of the full text of this article appears below.

To the Editor:

Cox and associates ¹ recently presented in vitro testing results on the 3F Aortic Bioprosthesis. Unfortunately, Cox and colleagues chose not to give authorship to any of the engineers who performed this work, nor even give them the courtesy of an acknowledgement. Due to the lack of input from these engineers, of whom I am one, the article contains several technical and interpretive errors that should be corrected. They are as follows:

• The text gives the impression that a laser micrometer was used to measure aortic chamber compliance . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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