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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;132:727-728
© 2006 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Reply to the Editor

Farhad Bakhtiary, MD, Omer Dzemali, MD, Thomas Wittlinger, MD, Anton Moritz, MD, Peter Kleine, MD

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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We appreciate the comments of Nemes and associates regarding our recent article and would like to point out the following issues in response to their comments.

The current published clinical trial followed our previous animal studies,1,2Go in which we investigated the effects of valve design and orientation on acute changes of coronary flow in different mechanical valve substitutes and the native aortic valve. In the group in which we did not replace the aortic valve but only performed 90 minutes of extracorporeal circulation and 60 minutes of myocardial ischemia, coronary flow rates increased significantly. No mechanical . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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