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Ann Thorac Surg 2007;84:713-714
© 2007 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Correspondence

Conflicting Echocardiographic Evaluations of Supra-Annular Tissue Valves: A Mystery Not Yet Resolved

Tomaso Bottio, MD, PhDa, Gino Gerosa, MDb

a Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Brescia Medical School, Piazza Spedali Civili 1, Brescia, 25100 Italy
b Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Padua Medical School, via Giustiniani 2, Padua, 36100 Italy

(Email: bottio@med.unibs.it; gino.gerosa@unipd.it).

The first 20% of the full text of this article appears below.

To the Editor:

We read the article by Pavoni and associates [1] with great interest. We would like to congratulate them for this well-designed study [1], but we wish to add some comments. The aim was to determine the hemodynamic performance and early clinical outcome of the Sorin Soprano valve (Sorin Group, Saluggia, Italy) in aortic patients. Seventy-seven patients received the Sorin Soprano valve (Sorin Group) and underwent serial echocardiographic examinations. Peak and mean transvalvular gradients analysed size by size were absolutely satisfactory, as well as the effective orifice areas and valve resistance. They commented that satisfactory performance of the Soprano valve had already been reported [. . . [Full Text of this Article]






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