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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2007;134:817
© 2007 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Fixed subaortic stenosis

Sameh Ibrahim Sersar, MD, Ahmed A. Jamjoom, MD, Ghassan M. Baslaim, MD

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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To the Editor:

We read with great interest the article entitled "Geometry of the Left Ventricular Outflow Tract in Fixed Subaortic Stenosis and Intact Ventricular Septum: An Echocardiographic Study in Children and Adults."1Go We have a few points to discuss.

First, we agree with the authors in choosing the wider mitral–aortic separation, steeper aortoseptal angle, smaller left ventricular outflow tract width, aortic valve dextroposition, increased left ventricle wall thickness, increased septal thickness, and indexed left ventricular end-diastolic and end-systolic diameters . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Reza Barkhordarian, Wei Li, and Michael Henein
J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 2007 134: 817-818. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]





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