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Ann Thorac Surg 2008;86:689-690. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.02.055
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John A. Elefteriades, MD, Arjet Gega, MD, John A. Rizzo, PhD

Yale University School of Medicine, Section of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 121 FMB, 333 Cedar St, New Haven, CT 06510

(Email: john.elefteriades@yale.edu).

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To the Editor:

We appreciate Dr Augoustides' [1] kind comments and recognize his personal and institutional experience and insights of cerebral protection in aortic surgery.

With regard to retrograde cerebral perfusion, we present the following responses to Augoustides' [1] germane questions and comments:

1 Retrograde cerebral perfusion was not used for potential embolic washout in this series and thus does not represent a confounder to data analysis.
2 Although we believe it has been abundantly demonstrated in the literature that retrograde cerebral perfusion . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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