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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2008;135:1401-1402
© 2008 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Surgical techniques for posterior aortic root enlargement

Dusko Nezic, MD, PhD, FETCS, Aleksandar Knezevic, MD, BcS, Sasa Borovic, MD

"Dedinje" Cardiovascular Institute, Belgrade, Serbia

The first 20% of the full text of this article appears below.

To the Editor:

We have read with extreme interest the paper by Dhareshwar and colleagues,1Go published in a recent issue, describing their results with patients undergoing posterior aortic root enlargement.

We absolutely agree that there is still considerable confusion in the literature regarding the techniques proposed by the enlargement techniques described by Nicks, Cartmill, and Bernstein2Go and by Manouguian and Seybold-Epting,3Go as was obvious even in subsequent discussion of the article by Dhareshwar and associates.1Go

Although the authors have correctly presented Nicks' posterior aortic root enlargement procedure in a paragraph describing the surgical technique (aortotomy is extended into the noncoronary sinus toward its belly to, but not beyond, the annulus), . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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