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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2005;27:1133
© 2005 Elsevier Science NL

Letter to the Editor

Reply to Shanmugam

Service de Chirurgie Thoracique. Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, 20 rue Leblanc 75015 Paris, France

Received 23 February 2005; accepted 28 February 2005.

^* Corresponding author. Tel.: +33 1 56 09 34 50; fax: +33 1 56 09 33 80. (E-mail: marc.riquet{at}hop.egp.ap-hop-paris.fr).

Key Words: Pulmonary Sequestration • Aspergillosis • Surgery

We are very pleased by Dr Shanmugan's letter [1] discussing our paper [2] about pulmonary sequestration and aspergillosis and we agree with most of his considerations. We only want to stress few points. None of the patients presented with diabetes, malnutrition, immunoincompetence and none suffered from allergic broncho-pulmonary aspergillosis. At surgery, adhesions were not very dense and the anomalous vascular supply was easy to identify and to control. We do not intend to further discuss about intralobar sequestration pathogenesis nor indication of surgery. We only want to precise that not one of the patients underwent antifungal medications and that all patients are well, some of them after a long period. Patient number four had a baby since submission of this paper for publication.

References

1. Shanmugan G. Aspergillosis complicating intralobar sequestration. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2005;27:1132-1133.[Free Full Text]
2. Berna P, Lebied ED, Assouad J, Foucault C, Danel C, Riquet M. Pulmonary sequestration and aspergillosis. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2005;27:28-31.[Abstract/Free Full Text]

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