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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2006;29:640-641
© 2006 Elsevier Science NL

Letter to the Editor

Reply to Fibla et al.

Thoracic Surgery Division, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary

Received 9 January 2006; accepted 12 January 2006.

^_* Corresponding author. Tel.: +36 72 536 126; fax: +36 72 536 127. (Email: mft@iseb.pote.hu).

Key Words: VATS • Lung biopsy • Day-case surgery • Medico-legal aspects

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We thank Fibla et al. [1] for their letter. Answering their questions, first, we did not have oxygen-dependent patients nor acute cases in our randomized study [2]. It would not have been proper to enroll critically ill patients in a new technology project. The mean hospital stay calculated from the incriminated (‘excessively long’) 7 days is partly due to an usually 2-day (1–5 days) long preoperative investigative period in our tertiary referral center with a waiting list less than 2 weeks. Our postoperative period ranging from 2 to 16 days with an average of 4.6 days, still . . . [Full Text of this Article]