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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2003;24:851
© 2003 Elsevier Science NL
Letter to the Editor |
Division of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, Section of Cardiac Surgery, The University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Received 6 August 2003; accepted 9 August 2003.
* Corresponding author. F 7830 C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, 1500E Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. Tel.: +1-734-936-4978; fax: +1-734-763-7353
e-mail: ohye@med.umich.edu
Key Words: Pulmonary valved conduit Contegra® bovine jugular vein graft Shelhigh No-React® porcine pulmonary valve conduit Right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction
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We appreciate the comments of Boudjemline et al. regarding their observations of similar clinical results with the ContegraTM bovine jugular vein graft and the Shelhigh No-ReactTM porcine pulmonary valve conduit. They postulate a similar host immune response to the xenograft
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