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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2008;136:1607
© 2008 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Reply to the Editor:

London Chest Hospital, London, United Kingdom

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My colleagues and I read with interest the comments by Cioffi, De Simone, and Ciulla in response to our article, "A Near Fatal Presentation of a Bronchogenic Cyst Compressing the Left Main Coronary Artery."¹ This article concerns the case of a 48-year-old woman with acute, severe coronary ischemia, which subsequently appeared to be due to left main coronary artery compression from a bronchogenic cyst. The patient had a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan in the postoperative period, which demonstrated another bronchogenic cyst. This was removed at a second operation.

We would like to respond to the three points made by Cioffi, De Simone, and Ciulla in turn.

1. Figure 1 in our article shows a severe ostial stenosis of . . . [Full Text of this Article]