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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2005;129:1204
© 2005 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letters to the Editor

Reply to the Editor

Mehmet Özkan, MD

Private Camlica Omur Hospital,Department of Cardiovascular Surgery,Uskudar-Istanbul, Turkey

We thank Dr Lee for responding to our article and for his comments.

Carbon dioxide insufflation, as a method of preparation of the internal thoracic artery, is not novel. Dr Lee first introduced this technique in 1988.1 Later, Bognolo and associates2 used the same technique in 1995. We also have used the carbon dioxide insufflation technique since 2002 without citing Drs Lee and Bognolo.3 After this omission was noticed, we referred to Drs Lee and Bognolo in our next article,4 titled "Effect of Carbon Dioxide Insufflation on Free Internal Thoracic Artery Flows: Is it a Vasodilator?" which was published in the Journal. We congratulate Dr Lee for introducing this techique to heart surgery.

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  1. Lee M. Carbodissection of the internal thoracic artery pedicle. Ann Thorac Surg. 1988;46:470-471.[Abstract]
  2. Bognolo G, Bognolo DA, Chiariello L. Use of CO2 blower for internal mammary artery harvesting. Ann Thorac Surg. 1995;59:1025.[Abstract/Free Full Text]
  3. Özkan M, Aslan A, Öguz M, et al. A carbon dioxide insufflation technique for preparation of the internal thoracic artery. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2003;125:963-964.[Free Full Text]
  4. Özkan M, Koramaz I, Ulus AT, Tavil Y, Filizlioglu H, Baykan EC, et al. Effect of carbon dioxide insufflation on free internal thoracic artery flows. is it a vasodilator?. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2004;128:354-356.[Medline]




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