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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2008;136:242-243
© 2008 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Focus on the Thoracoscore

^a Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Jean Minjoz Hospital, Besançon, France
^b Department of Thoracic Surgery, Larrey Hospital, Toulouse, France

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To the Editor:

It is with great interest that we read the article entitled "Thoracoscore predicts midterm mortality in patients undergoing thoracic surgery."¹ The authors' findings and conclusions concur perfectly with those of our initial main work, which first created and proposed the use of the Thoracoscore.² However, we would like to emphasize 2 points that we consider to be important.

First, one of our concerns is the reliability of any modification in the French scoring system (Thoracoscore), as was done with the dyspnea score in the present study. This point is particularly crucial. Effectively, our initial aim was to develop a self-assessment system based on a . . . [Full Text of this Article]