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1Division of Cardiac Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Blalock 618, 600 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
|August 3, 2007
Abstract:
Surgical ventricular restoration (SVR) is an accepted treatment option for patients with end-stage congestive heart failure (CHF). A minority of these patients will require the placement of a left ventricular assist device (LVAD). We report our operative technique for placement of an LVAD following SVR.
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