Reply to Tourmousoglou.

Pettinari, Matteo;de Kerchove, Laurent;Vanoverschelde, Jean-Louis;El Khoury, Gebrine
(2020) European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery — Vol. 7, n° 1, p. 203-204 (2020)

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  • Pettinari, Matteo
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  • de Kerchove, LaurentUCLouvain
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  • Vanoverschelde, Jean-Louisorcid-logoUCLouvain
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  • El Khoury, GebrineUCLouvain
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Abstract
(en) I thank Tourmousoglou [1] for his valuable comments on our article [2] and we agree about the doubts he has raised. The use of a tricuspid annulus of more than 40 mm in size has been previously introduced by the Dion group in Leiden [3] and by then, this was the only indication for prophylactic tricuspid annuloplasty and therefore was introduced in the recent guidelines. We believe that a deeper understanding of the anatomy of the tricuspid valve and its possible evolution with time after mitral valve surgery is necessary. [...]
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Pettinari, M., de Kerchove, L., Vanoverschelde, J.-L., & El Khoury, G. (2020). Reply to Tourmousoglou. European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery, 7(1), 203-204. https://doi.org/10.1093/ejcts/ezz067 (Original work published 2020)