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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2006;30:203
© 2006 Elsevier Science NL

Letter to the Editor

Reply to Pramesh and Mistry

^a Unit of Thoracic Surgery, "Umberto I" Regional Hospital Ancona, Via S. Margherita 23, Ancona 60129, Italy
^b Division of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Institute, Pascale Foundation, Naples, Italy

Received 3 April 2006; accepted 5 April 2006.

^_* Corresponding author. Tel.: +39 0715964439; fax: +39 0715964433. (Email: alexit_2000@yahoo.com).

Key Words: Pulmonary function tests • Carbon monoxide lung diffusion capacity • Lung resection • Morbidity

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We thank Drs Pramesh and Mistry [1] for their supportive comments on our recent article showing the poor correlation of FEV1 and DLCO and the ability of ppoDLCO to predict complications in patients with normal FEV1 [2].

We think our findings should warrant the systematic measurement of DLCO in all candidates for lung resection . . . [Full Text of this Article]