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Letter to the Editor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2005

Jean Rubay
Jean Rubay
Affiliation:
Université Catholique de Louvain Cliniques, Universitaires Saint-Luc Service de Chirurgie, Cardiovasculaire et Thoracique, Bruxelles, Belgium. E-mail: rubay@chir.ucl.ac.be
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Cardiology in the Young , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , February 2004 , pp. 115
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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

Dear Sir,

Re: Optimal timing of the Ross procedure

I have read with great interest the article published in your journal by Michael Cheung and colleagues.1 Obviously the authors did not read our article,2 even though they mentioned it, when they claimed that “there are no systematic studies in children describing the relationship between functional recovery and preoperative characteristics”.

Our paper was exclusively based on that aspect, giving the left ventricular Z-score guidelines for optimal timing for surgery.

References

Cheung MR, Sullivan ID, de Leval MR, Tsang VT, Redington AN. Optimal timing of the Ross procedure in the management of chronic aortic incompetence in the young. Cardiol Young 2003; 13: 253–257.Google Scholar
Rubay JE, Shango P, Clement S, et al. Ross procedure in congenital patients: results and left ventricular function. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 1997; 11: 92–99.Google Scholar