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Reply Dear Sir: We thank Doctors Eriksson, Friedman, Cushner, and Lassen for their letter regarding our recently published manuscript: Potent anticoagulants are associated with a higher all-cause mortality rate after hip and knee arthroplasty [15]. They have challenged the evidence presented in our paper which suggests that potent anticoagulants are associated with higher mortality than multimo...

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We thank Dr Schachner for his interest and comments on our recent experimental findings [1]. The first facet of our study was that although initially (at 1 month), neointima formation in vein grafts was inhibited by perivenous application of fibrin glue at the time of implantation, at 4 months neointimal formation was not significantly different from controls [1]. Dr Schachner has implied that ...

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We appreciate the comments of Drs von Oppell and Rammohan on our article. The definition in our paper relates specifically to deep sternal wound infections and we appreciate that perhaps this is not made abundantly clear in the methodology. Superficial wound infections were defined as those that do not penetrate the subcutaneous tissue layer. The wound may exhibit erythema and a small amount of...

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[3] Riesenberg H, Lübbe AS. In-patient rehabilitation of lung cancer patients-a prospective study. Support Care Cancer 2009, in press. [4] Cesario A, Dall’Armi V, Cusumano G, Ferri L, Margaritora S, Cardaci V, Cafarotti S, Russo P, Paleari L, Sterzi S, Bonassi S, Granone P. Post-operative pulmonary rehabilitation after lung resection for NSCLC: a follow up study. Lung Cancer 2009;66:268—73. [5]...