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Ann Thorac Surg 2004;78:757
© 2004 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Correspondence

Surgical approach to ascending aorta in patients with bicuspid aortic valve

Erkan Kuralay, MD, Ufuk Demrkiliç, MD, Mehmet Arslan, MD, Harun Tatar, MD

Gülhane Military Medical Academy, Cardiovascular Surgery Department, Yazanlar Sokak No. 31/11, Asagi Ayranci, Ankara, Turkey 06540

e-mail: ekural@gata.edu.tr

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To the Editor:

I read with great interest the article by Bauer and colleagues [1] and congratulate them on their excellent results. We do not understand why their experience is different from ours and most of the literature. We question their results. They stated that reduction aortaplasty showed good long-term results in patients with bicuspid aortic valve (BAV). In their experience redilation of the aorta occurred only in patients with suboptimal reduction in diameter.

Patients with BAV have pathology of the intrinsic aortic wall. Bauer and associates also reported a morphometric analysis of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]