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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:208
© 2006 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Reply to the Editor

Keiji Kamohara, MD a , Kiyotaka Fukamachi, MD, PhD a , A. Marc Gillinov, MD b

a Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195
b Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195

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We appreciate the response by Stöllberger, Schneider, and Finsterer to our work 1 Go and thank them for their valuable comments.

As they mentioned, this series in dogs was too small to confirm the long-term safety and tissue response to the atrial exclusion device (AED). However, the main purpose of this series was to assess the feasibility of the device implant during a beating heart procedure, and thus we did not include a control group or an atrial fibrillation (AF) animal model, which would have been helpful to evaluate the safety and efficacy of this device.

Because of the main goal of this study series, we also did not analyze biochemistry levels such . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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