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Ann Thorac Surg 2009;88:708-709. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.01.003
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Surgical Ventricular Restoration: Who Really Benefits?

Teruya Nakamura, MD

Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, National Hospital Organization, Kure Medical Center, 3-1 Aoyama-Cho, Kure, Hiroshima, 737-0023 Japan

(Email: teruyan@kure-nh.go.jp).

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To the Editor:

We congratulate the outstanding work of Prucz and colleagues [1], who provided us a very important message on the possibility of surgical ventricular restoration (SVR) as a treatment of congestive heart failure. They described that SVR improved the long-term outcome of patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy, in terms of reduction of re-hospitalization, improvement of New York Heart Association functional class, and the increased number . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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