Commentary: "Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail" (Leonardo da Vinci).

Mastrobuoni, Stefano;de Kerchove, Laurent;El Khoury, Gébrine
(2021) The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery — Vol. 161, n° 3, p. 901-902 (2021)

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  • de Kerchove, LaurentUCLouvain
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  • El Khoury, GébrineUCLouvain
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Abstract
In 1995, I (G.E.K.) had the chance to visit during some months Professor Carpentier in Paris and Professor David in Toronto. Both events marked undoubtfully my further professional career; nonetheless, the months spent in Toronto decided my main field of development in cardiac surgery. While reading the last report by David and colleagues1 on the reimplantation of the aortic valve (AV), published in the current issue of the Journal, I reflected on the evolution of valve-sparing procedures during these last 25 years, in particular on what is widely known as the David procedure. [...]
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Mastrobuoni, S., de Kerchove, L., & El Khoury, G. (2021). Commentary: “Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail” (Leonardo da Vinci). The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 161(3), 901-902. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2020.08.056 (Original work published 2021)