Dear Dr Kavic,
We thank Dr Richmond for his letter. We were dismayed to learn that despite our attempts to retrieve all of the pertinent literature regarding intestinal ischemia after laparoscopic cholecystectomy, Dr Richmond's article did not appear in the search results. We used the PubMed service of the US National Library of Medicine with what we considered to be an adequate range of search terms. In retrospect, a larger number of terms should have been employed. We would like to apologize to Dr Richmond and his colleagues for the inadvertent omission of his article. We fully endorse Dr Richmond's call for standardization of the terminology pertaining to this clinical phenomenon. Indeed, having now had the opportunity to read his excellent article, we would be hard pressed to come up with a better term than the one he has proposed: “laparoscopic-associated mesenteric vascular events.” The resulting acronym, “LAMVE,” rolls easily off the tongue.
Yours sincerely,
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Louis Leduc, Quebec Coroner's Office Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Andrew Mitchell, Department of Pathology Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Montreal, Quebec, Canada.