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Ann Thorac Surg 2001;71:2088
© 2001 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Correspondence

Impact of myocardial infarction on the outcome after partial left ventriculectomy

Stefan Christiansen, MDa, Klaus Redmann, MDa, Dieter Hammel, MDa

a Klinik und Poliklinik für Thorax-, Herz- und Gefäßchirurgie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Albert-Schweitzer-Str 33, 48149 Münster, Germany

To the Editor

With great interest we read the paper of Cury and associates [1], who reported their autopsy findings after partial left ventriculectomy (PLV). They found an area of myocardial infarction (MI) measuring from 2.2 to 6.0 cm, adjacent to the surgical incision, which usually extended to the papillary muscles. They attributed this finding to ligation of great marginal branches, which supplied more myocardium than the resected one. Recently, we had the opportunity to study a heart after PLV and also found a large scar that extended beyond the suture used to close the ventriculotomy [2]. As Ratliff (Invited Commentary . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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