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^a Department of Biosurgery and Surgical Technology, Imperial College London, St. Mary's Hospital, London, W2 1NY England
^b Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY 10029

(Email: christopher.rao@imperial.ac.uk; tathan5253@aol.com; chikwe@gmail.com).

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We appreciate the thoughtful response of Dr Odell [1] to our article [2]. Odell highlights a case report [3] and an animal study [4], suggesting that deformation of intracoronary stents may occur intraoperatively from routine manipulation . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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