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Ann Thorac Surg 2000;70:958-960
© 2000 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Case report

Left ventricular reduction in a Jehovah’s Witness

David Michael McMullan, MDa, Erik A.K. Beyer, MDa, Igor Gregoric, MDa, Branislav Radovancevic, MDa, O.H. Frazier, MDa

a Department of Surgery, Texas Heart Institute, Houston, Texas, USA

Address reprint requests to Dr Frazier, Texas Heart Institute, M. C. 3-147, PO Box 20345, Houston, TX 77225-0345

For Jehovah’s Witnesses with severe heart failure, left ventricular reduction surgery may be a satisfactory alternative to cardiac transplantation. Compared with transplantation, left ventricular reduction surgery can involve less blood loss thus decreasing the need for blood-volume replacement. More importantly, left ventricular reduction surgery obviates the need for a donor organ.


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