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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;131:1421-1422
© 2006 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Reply to the Editor

George Koullias, MD, Raj Modak, MD, Paul Barash, MD, John A. Elefteriades, MD

Section of Cardiovascular Surgery and Department of Anesthesia, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar St (121 FMB), New Haven, CT 06510

(Email: john.elefteriades@yale.edu).

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Our team wishes to thank Dr Sundt for his extremely kind comments regarding our scientific investigations at the Center for Thoracic Aortic Disease at Yale University. We agree entirely with Dr Sundt that "residual strain" represents yet another facet of the complex mechanical behavior and measurable properties of the aortic wall. He and his colleagues, in the important work they cite in their letter, have measured this phenomenon in human aortas. From an engineering standpoint, residual strain is considered more important in thick-walled tubes (ratio of wall thickness to vessel diameter >1:10). . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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