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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2005;27:729
© 2005 Elsevier Science NL

Letter to the Editor

Reply to Chatzis et al.

^a Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital,Regensburg, Germany
^b Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Rostock, Germany

Received 22 December 2004; accepted 23 December 2004.

^* Corresponding author. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Regensburg, 93042, Regensburg Germany. Address: Tel.: +49 941 944 9801; fax: +49 941 944 9802. (E-mail: wolfgang.goetz@klinik.uni-regensburg.de).

Key Words: Absent pericardium • Congenital • Tricuspid insufficiency

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Thank you for your Letter to the Editor [1] regarding our report ‘Tricuspid valve repair in a case with congenital absence of left thoracic pericardium’. We appreciate your comments and agree that congenital elements in partial and complete absence of pericardum must be considered. Associated anomalies including mitral stenosis, atrial . . . [Full Text of this Article]