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Ann Thorac Surg 2006;81:2277-2278
© 2006 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

New technology

Invited commentary

Randy M. Stevens, MD, Tomas A. Salerno, MD

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Miami, 1611 NW 12th Ave, East Tower 3072 (R-114), Miami, FL 33136

(Email: rstevens2@um-jmh.org; tsalerno@med.miami.edu).

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Filsoufi and colleagues [1] report a retrospective analysis of a novel device (ring) to correct functional tricuspid regurgitation (TR) during repair of another heart valve. The Edwards MC3 annuloplasty ring (Edwards LifeSciences, Irvine, CA) has a three-dimensional, saddle-shape configuration that the authors claim prevents failure after repair of TR.

The hallmark of any hypothesis-driven study is elimination of all variables except one. This study comes short of this goal so that one has to evaluate the results carefully. The authors respectfully acknowledge a bias in their study in that they utilize a new ring and at the same time they downsize . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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