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Ann Thorac Surg 2001;71:1187-1188
© 2001 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Invited commentary

^a Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital, Cardiff, UK

According to Dr Li and colleagues, this article represents the largest number of Carbomedics aortic valves implanted in a single institution yet reported. However, the potential value of this study is somewhat diminished by methodologic deficiencies. First, data collection was entirely retrospective, with patients or their relatives being contacted by telephone only at the end of the study period. As the authors acknowledge, it has been shown that this method of data collection considerably underestimates the true number of adverse events, as one is relying on the memory . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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