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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2009;137:1296-1297
© 2009 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Reply to the Editor

Thierry Carrel, MDa, Florian S. Schoenhoff, MDa, Duke Cameron, MDb

a Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Berne, Berne, Switzerland
b Division of Cardiac Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md

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We thank Drs Musci, Siniawski, and Hetzer for their comments regarding our recent article entitled "Deleterious outcome of No-React treated stentless valved conduits following aortic root replacement."1Go We appreciate their scientific approach to the problem and congratulate the authors on their excellent results obtained in patients with active infective endocarditis.

The authors refer to 2 of their articles published in 20032Go and 2005,3Go which both have been cited in our article. As already said, we originally believed that the Shelhigh aortic valve conduit (Shelhigh, Inc, Union, NJ) was an attractive alternative to homografts. We published our preliminary experience soon after the prosthesis was introduced and showed excellent short-term results regarding handling of the prosthesis and postoperative hemodynamics.4Go The positive experience described by the Berlin group was one of the reasons we hesitated to attribute the catastrophic . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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