J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2008;136:1391
© 2008 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery
Reply to the Editor:
Henry L. Walters, III, MD
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Mich
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As Talwar and colleagues state in their Letter to the Editor, we acknowledged the obvious and unavoidable era bias in our article. The 3 patients who underwent repair of coarctation (CoA) of the aorta alone, using a median sternotomy incision with cardiopulmonary bypass, had significant proximal aortic arch hypoplasia that precluded satisfactory . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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