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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2007;133:1392-1393
© 2007 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Reply to the Editor

Herz- und Gefaess-Klinik Bad Neustadt, Germany

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My colleagues and I very much appreciate Dr AK and Dr Dogan’s interest in our article published in the December issue of the Journal.¹

The authors of the letter try to demonstrate that axillary artery cannulation is superior to carotid artery cannulation. Apparently, their opinion is based mainly on recent reports, especially on that of Kieffer and associates,² in which among 130 patients operated on because of degenerative aneurysm of the descending . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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