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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2003;24:668
© 2003 Elsevier Science NL

Letter to the Editor

Reply to Misawa

Universitary General Hospital of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Received 10 July 2003; accepted 15 July 2003.

^* Corresponding author. C/Artes Gráficas no. 4, esc. izq. pta.3., 46010 Valencia, Spain. Tel.: +34-96-3622216
e-mail: rgfuster@terra.com

Key Words: Aortic valve replacement • Aortic valve regurgitation • Left ventricular mass index • Left ventricular remodeling

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We appreciated the Letter to the Editor by Misawa and we read with great interest their comments on our paper. These authors have reported an interesting study about their experience in a long term echocardiographic follow up performed on patients after aortic valve replacement (AVR) for isolated aortic regurgitation [1]. They concluded that in order to normalize the left ventricular function, those who had left ventricular end-systolic dimension (LVDs) greater than 50 mm . . . [Full Text of this Article]