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Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157

(Email: tkincaid@wfubmc.edu).

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We congratulate Dr D’Onofrio and his colleagues [1] on their excellent results with the inclusion technique for implantation of stentless porcine valves. We also used this technique early in our series [2], but quickly switched to near universal application of the total root replacement procedure. The primary reason for this switch was to achieve optimal hemodynamics, which has clearly been demonstrated by . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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