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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1996;112:206
© 1996 Mosby, Inc.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Mitral valve repair

Professor of Cardiac Surgery
State University of Londrina
School of Medicine
Londrina, Paraná, Brazil

To the Editor:

My colleagues and I read with interest the article by Hvass and associates (J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1995;110:859-62), in which they described a technique for mitral valve repair that closely resembled a procedure we described in this Journal in 1994 (1994;107:635-8). We both described a technique of grafting the posterior leaflet of the tricuspid valve, with the chordae tendineae and papillary muscle, to the mitral valve leaflets for the correction of mitral valve insufficiency.

To our surprise, the authors made no reference to our work in their article. Inasmuch as our letter was published in the same Journal, we thought that it could not have escaped the attention of either the authors or the referees.

We would also like to draw attention to the fact that we suggested further use of this technique for partial replacement of the leaflets in the case of localized calcification of the mitral valve.

We are glad that Dr. Hvass and his group have confirmed the efficiency of this technique, which we have now used successfully in 20 cases.

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