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Ann Thorac Surg 2001;72:317-318
© 2001 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Correspondence

The pride of our surgical heritage

Angelo Actis Dato, MDa, Guglielmo Mario Actis Dato, MDb a Italian Institution of Cardiac Surgery, Via Genova, 4, 10126 Torino, Italy
b Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Turin, Corso Dogliotti, 10126 Torino, Italy

e-mail: actisdato@libero.it
e-mail: actisdato@hotmail.com

To the Editor

It was a real pleasure to read the letter to the editor by Igor E. Konstantinov from Rochester and Vladimir V. Alexi-Meskishvili from Berlin regarding our original work in cavopulmonary bidirectional shunt [1]. As a pioneer in cardiac surgery (my first report in this field was in October 1949 regarding the opportunity to organize a modern center to study and treat cardiac malformations) [2], I completely agree with the comment of Konstantinov that "... the firsts also have their own predecessors."

It should be of some interest that during the 1950s and 1960s the Alfred Blalock Cardiac Center of Turin was a referral center for the surgical treatment of both congenital and adult cardiac disease in Italy. Thanks to my teacher, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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The pride of our surgical heritage: Reply
Igor E. Konstantinov and Vladimir V. Alexi-Meskishvili
Ann. Thorac. Surg. 2001 72: 318. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]





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