Ann Thorac Surg 1996;62:1049-1050
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DR CONSTANTINE E. ANAGNOSTOPOULOS (New York, NY): I assume that the conclusions you had were for your research group for the abdominal aorta. In our previous experience of transection and anastomosis of the thoracic aorta in two groups of relatively fully grown dogs, that grow a little more, and puppies that grew a lot, we found the incidence of visible angiographic and otherwise demonstrable (at postmortem examination) anastomotic structure with continuous nonabsorbable suture was only 1 in 19. And I think the results that we found in the thoracic aorta (long-term results, 1 to 3 years) paralleled some of the clinical results. I wonder whether your observations had to do with two factors: (1) you were dealing with the abdominal aorta in a model that was not growing very fast because you were not using puppies; and (2) the experimenters, knowing what material they were using, may have had some sort of a built-in error. Can you explain those two possibilities?
In other words, is there a possible difference between the experimental results in the abdominal aorta and some of our experimental results in the thoracic aorta and your clinical results? Also, is it possible that the experimenters knew that they were using different materials and wanted to prove that one was better than the . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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