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Ann Thorac Surg 1996;62:1730
© 1996 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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see also page 1724.

DR YARON BAR-EL (Haifa, Israel): I congratulate Dr Gabbay and his group for this excellent research and presentation. After a careful review of the preclinical data, we at the Rambam Medical Center in Israel have joined a few European and South American clinical centers to investigate the No-React bioprosthesis. We have been using the No-React bioprosthesis for the past year and have implanted various kinds of grafts in 8 patients. We have implanted two stentless mitral valves, five aortic stentless valves, one porcine internal mammary artery graft, and one femoropopliteal bypass below-knee graft using a bovine internal mammary artery graft. I would like to draw your attention to 2 patients who were youngsters, aged 12 and 13 years, at the time of operation.

The first is a girl who was flown in emergently with active bacterial endocarditis that destroyed her mitral . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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