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Ann Thorac Surg 2005;79:1826
© 2005 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Correspondence

Mitral Valve Repair

All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Department of CTVS, CT Centre, AIIMS, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi 110 029, India

(E-mail: asampath_kumar{at}hotmail.com).

To the Editor:

The article by Fasol and colleagues [1] made interesting reading. Several innovative methods have been used for posterior annuloplasty and remodeling of the mitral valve using a C-shaped device. The original description came from Cooley and colleagues [2]. We adapted this technique, but we used thick Teflon felt (C-R Bard Inc, Tempe, AZ) instead [3, 4]. Another commercially available product for this type of repair is the Cosgrove ring. The authors would have done well to credit Cooley and colleagues [2] for their original description, as well as to refer to a large series of published data on this type of repair, which is quite popular. The authors deserve to be congratulated on producing yet another new device for a well established technique.

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1. Meinhart J, Deutsch M, Binder T. Mitral valve repair with the Colvin–Galloway future band Ann Thorac Surg 2004;77:1985-1988.[Abstract/Free Full Text]
2. Cooley DA, Frazier OH, Norman JC. Mitral leaflet prolapse: surgical treatment using a posterior annular collar prosthesis Cardiovasc Dis Bull Tex Heart Inst 1976;3:438-443.
3. Sampath Kumar A, Kumar RV, Shrivastava S, Venugopal P, Sood AK, Gopinath N. Mitral valve reconstruction: early results of a modified Cooley technique Tex Heart Inst J 1992;19:107-111.[Medline]
4. Choudhary SK, Talwar S, Dubey B, Chopra A, Saxena A, Sampath Kumar A. Mitral valve repair in a predominantly rheumatic population: long-term results Tex Heart Inst J 2001;28:8-15.[Medline]

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