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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2008;136:289
© 2008 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Invited Commentary

Discussion

Dr Frank W. Sellke (Boston, Mass). This is a very nice study in a series from the group looking at the potential causal effects leading to the formation of arteriovenous connections in the lungs of patients who have undergone this operation. I have several questions.

This was a unilateral model in which you performed the CPA on one side and you used the opposite, or normally perfused, lung as a control. Is that correct?

Dr Duncan. That is correct.

Dr Sellke. Well, there are other factors involved such that the perfusion to the control lung might not be quite normal. Would you consider performing another control just to verify that there are not additional changes going on in the control lung that ordinarily would . . . [Full Text of this Article]