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To the Editor: The association between seropositivity for cytomegalovirus (CMV) and restenosis after coronary atherectomy reported by Zhou et al. (Aug. 29 issue)¹ is intriguing, but their analysis leaves open several questions. The authors included four patients in the CMV-positive group who, though initially seropositive, were seronegative at the six-month follow-up visit. Three of these patients had initial CMV titers just above the cutoff for seropositivity, whereas one had a midrange titer; all the titers dropped to nearly zero on follow-up. This raises the question of whether these patients in fact had CMV infection.² Since they all had restenosis, including . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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