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Ann Thorac Surg 1998;65:1834
© 1998 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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^a Department of Surgery, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, One Robert Wood Johnson Pl, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA

To the Editor

My colleagues and I read with great interest the comments by Izumoto and associates regarding our recently published case report. They believe that the number of cases in the literature of mitral valve myxomas we reported was inaccurate. They cite the thorough review of mitral valve myxomas by Chakfe and associates [1] recently published in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, in which Chafke and associates tabulated 20 cases of mitral valve myxomas in the world literature. Many of these cases, however, were diagnosed at autopsy and were, therefore, not relevant to our case report, which focused on the diagnosis and management of these rare lesions. Furthermore, several of the cases were not written in English. Our literature review was limited to those written in English, and this was clearly stated in our report.

We thank Izumoto and associates for calling to our attention their informative case report regarding a 32-year-old man found to have this rare lesion [2]. As Izumoto and associates are undoubtedly aware, there is often a delay of several months or more after a report is published before it is indexed and available in a search of the literature. Unfortunately, at the time we were preparing our article, a search of Medline did not yield the report by Kamata and colleagues.

References

1. Chafke N., Kretz J.G., Valentin P., et al. Clinical presentation and treatment options for mitral valve myxoma. Ann Thorac Surg 1997;64:872-877.[Abstract/Free Full Text]
2. Kamata J., Yoshioka K., Nasu M., et al. Myxoma of the mitral valve detected by echocardiography and magnetic resonance imaging. Eur Heart J 1995;16:1435-1438.[Abstract/Free Full Text]

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