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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2006;29:854-855
© 2006 Elsevier Science NL

Letter to the Editor

Reply to Izumoto

Rush University Medical Center, 1653 West Congress Parkway, Chicago, IL 60612, United States

Received 29 January 2006; accepted 31 January 2006.

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Key Words: Valve disease

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I would like to thank Dr Izumoto for his thoughtful comments regarding aortic valve repair. As he pointed out, many of the articles cited had a large percentage of rheumatic valves that were repaired. As rheumatic heart disease is a progressive and relentless type of pathology, the results with repair were much worse in this cohort than in those without the disease. Ideally, Dr Savage and I would have loved to separate out all those . . . [Full Text of this Article]