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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2007;32:184. doi:10.1016/j.ejcts.2007.03.006
Copyright © 2007, European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

Letters to the Editor

Reply to Molnar et al.

Sridhar Rathinama, Servarayan M. Chandramohanb,*

a Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Bordesley Green East, Birmingham, United Kingdom
b Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Government Royapettah Hospital and Kilpauk Medical College, Chennai, India

Received 4 March 2007; accepted 5 March 2007.

* Corresponding author. Tel.: +91 44 2661 3464. (Email: smchandra{at}yahoo.com).

Key Words: Dysphagia • Medical humanities • Tuberculosis

We thank Molnar et al. [1] for their interest and valuable comments in our work [2]. We agree with them that complications of tuberculosis are almost forgotten in modern literature. We have encountered this presentation as ours is a high volume oesophageal centre in India. It is important that we are aware of the rare presentations like dysphagia as there is a resurgence of tuberculosis both in the East and the West [3]. It is said a surgeon learns throughout his career and Molnar et al. have highlighted the importance of gaining knowledge from non medical sources and humanity.

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  1. Molnar TF, Detterbeck F, Baliko Z. Another perspective of the dysphagia due to tuberculosis. Eur J Cardiothor Surg 2007;32:184.[Free Full Text]
  2. Rathinam S, Kanagavel M, Tiruvadanan BS, Santhosam R, Chandramohan SM. Dysphagia due to tuberculosis. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2006;30:833-836.[Abstract/Free Full Text]
  3. World Health Organisation Media centre: Tuberculosis http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs104/en/.




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