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Letters to the Editor

Modified Bentall operation

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Cardiovascular Clinic Bad Neustadt, 97616 Bad Neustadt, Germany

Received 28 May 2008; accepted 1 July 2008.

^_* Corresponding author. Address: Herz- und Gefaess-Klinik, Salzburger Leite 1, 97616 Bad Neustadt, Germany. Tel.: +49 9771 662416; fax: +49 9771 651219. (Email: p.urbanski@kardiochirurg.de).

Key Words: Bentall operation • Self-assembled composite grafts

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In the September 2007 and April 2008 issues of the European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery two ‘how-to-do-it’ papers about modified, self-assembled composite grafts for the Bentall operation appeared [1,2], which we read with great interest. Using different prostheses but almost identical surgical techniques, the authors performed complete aortic root replacement with self-assembled composite grafts in which biological valve prostheses were located inside the vascular tubes. With their small but very positive experiences in using this technique that we have . . . [Full Text of this Article]