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Ann Thorac Surg 2001;71:1754-1755
© 2001 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Correspondence

Different technical approaches on cardiac binding procedures

Mustafa Ünal, MD^a, lyas Kayaciolu, MD^a, Murat Demirta, MD^a, Murat Akçar, MD^a

^a Siyami Ersek Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Center, Tibbiye Cad. Haydarposa, 81010 Istanbul, Turkey

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To the Editor

We have read the recent article of Shah and colleagues [1]. We also started a research study on the same subject in our Thoracic and Cardiovascular Unit in 1998 and our study still continues. There are several similarities between our study and this article. The aim of these studies is to obtain the "girdling" and "sparing" effects with a lesser invasive method. We have observed that some special aspects which we have considered, while defining the fundamental principles of our study, were neither taken into account nor stated by Shah and coworkers.

1. We firstly created a dilated cardiomyopathy in healthy subjects by an external cardiac pacemaker, and confirmed the dilated cardiomyopathy with echocardiography and pulmonary catheterization, then applied cardiac binding [2]. Shah and associates have firstly performed composite cardiac . . . [Full Text of this Article]