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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2006;30:411
© 2006 Elsevier Science NL

Letter to the Editor

Are the aortic anatomical normal leaflets, normal leaflets?

Centro Cardiologico Monzino, IRCCS, Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Milan, Via Parea 4, 20138 Milan, Italy

Received 14 March 2006; accepted 19 April 2006.

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Key Words: Aortic root • Cardiac surgery • Innervation • Cardiac valves

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I read with interest a recent article by Thubrikar et al. [1] where they suggest that in dilated aortic roots the anatomically normal leaflets, however, were not geometrically normal. Thus they conclude that during valve-sparing . . . [Full Text of this Article]