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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:217
© 2006 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Reply to the Editor

Thomas W. Rice, MD, Eugene H. Blackstone, MD

Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio

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Reply to the Editor:

We thank Porziella and colleagues for their comments and suggestions. In our study, esophageal manometry was performed preoperatively and postoperatively, but not intraoperatively. Therefore, we cannot compare published intraoperative results with our results. As Dr Cesario pointed out, at least for fundoplication, there is poor correlation between intraoperative and postoperative manometry.

In our patients who underwent Heller myotomy alone, median resting pressure was 13.3 mm Hg, and . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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