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Department of Surgery, Allegheny General Hospital, 320 East North Ave, 14th Floor, South Tower, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA 15212

(Email: gmagover@wpahs.org).

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I read with interest the article by Martens and colleagues [1]. It is important for the present generation of practicing thoracic and cardiovascular surgeons to know that the sutureless 3f Enable aortic bioprosthesis (ATS Medical, Minneapolis, MN) is not the first sutureless aortic valve to be implanted. The first sutureless aortic valve prosthesis was the Magovern-Cromie mechanical fixation aortic valve prosthesis first implanted on January 9, 1963 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The patient had severe aortic insufficiency. In the late 1950s and through the decade of the 1960s, myocardial protection for aortic valve procedures was limited to either anoxic arrest with cross clamping or direct coronary artery perfusion cannulas placed in the coronary ostia . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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