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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2007;31:960-961. doi:10.1016/j.ejcts.2007.01.057
Copyright © 2007, European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

Letters to the Editor

Tilting of the mitral valvar annulus

^a Cardiac Unit, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford St, London WC1N 1EH, UK
^b Experimentelle Thorax-, Herz und Gefäßchirurgie, Universitsät Münster, Munster, Germany

Received 22 December 2006; received in revised form 22 December 2006; accepted 31 January 2007.

^_* Corresponding author. Tel.: +44 207 905 2295; fax: +44 207 905 2324. (Email: r.anderson@ich.ucl.ac.uk).

Key Words: Myocardium • Ventricular architecture • Three-dimensional arrangement

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We note that, in their recent article published in the Journal, De Cicco and colleagues [1] cite our recent work [2] when they discuss the ‘tilting movement of the mitral valve annulus’. They go on to state, however, that our own work was ‘confirmed and revised’ by Torrent-Guasp and colleagues [3]. This is not true. The concept, as proposed by Torrent-Guasp and colleagues [3], . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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