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Ann Thorac Surg 2005;80:2423
© 2005 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Kiyofumi Morishita, MD, Nobuyoshi Kawaharada, MD, Johji Fukada, MD, Kenji Kuwaki, MD, Tomio Abe, MD

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, South 1 West 16, Central Ward, Sapporo, Japan

(Email: kmori@sapmed.ac.jp).

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To the Editor:

Thank you for the opportunity to comment on this letter from Dr Luciani and associates [1]. They have obtained excellent results using their sophisticated strategies. The hospital mortality rate was only 2% in 137 redo valvular patients, and deaths were not related to re-entries. We agree that prophylactic use of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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