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Transventricular mitral annuloplasty in a patient undergoing partial left ventriculectomy
R J Batista1, A T Kawaguchi, S Shimura
1Vilela Batista Heart Foundation, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil.
Journal of Cardiac Surgery
|January 5, 2002
Abstract:
A 70-year-old male patient with heart failure resulting from dilated cardiomyopathy underwent a partial left ventriculectomy between the papillary muscles and a newly devised transventricular mitral annuloplasty. Intraoperative transesophageal Doppler echocardiography revealed reduced ventricular dimensions and corrected mitral insufficiency with unchanged ventricular filling patterns, allowing prompt recovery despite unchanged myocardial pathology.