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First Hospital of Tsinghua University, Cardiac Center, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, No. 6 JiuXianQiao 1st Rd, Beijing, 100016 China

(Email: wuqingyu{at}mail.tsinghua.edu.cn).

To the Editor:

I would like to thank Sarioglu and colleagues [1] for their feedback and points to our article [2]. We used the pulmonary artery wall to create a tube to elongate the left coronary artery in regard to it retaining the growth possibility, and this is especially important for good long-term outcome. Congratulations to your good results in treating similar patients with autologous pericardium. Did you use it fresh or glutaraldehyde preserved? Theoretically, a tube made with fresh pericardium more possibly gets deformed; for the glutaraldehyde preserved pericardium, it is more vulnerable to degeneration and calcification in a long period. That is our concern. So we may need more patients and longer follow-up time for these patients.

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1. Sarioglu T, Salihoglu E, Erek E, Yalcinbas YK. Pericardial tube for translocation in anomalous origin of coronary arteries(letter) Ann Thorac Surg 2008;86:1722.[Free Full Text]
2. Wu Q, Xu Z. An alternative procedure for correction of anomalous origin of left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery Ann Thorac Surg 2007;84:2132-2133.[Abstract/Free Full Text]

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