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Original Articles: Adult Cardiac

Invited Commentary

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 525 E 68th St, M-424, New York, NY 10021

(Email: lngirard@med.cornell.edu).

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For a technique to be considered successful in cardiac surgery, it should be performed with low operative mortality and have excellent durability. It should also be easily adopted by a majority of surgeons and be applicable across a wide range of pathologies. The results presented to us by Nakahira and colleagues [1] demonstrate that the Svensson modification of the Bentall root reconstruction meets these criteria and deserves a place in the armamentarium of cardiac surgeons performing aortic root reconstruction.

The modified or "button" Bentall remains the most commonly performed . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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