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Ann Thorac Surg 2001;72:1969
© 2001 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Invited commentary

Gus J. Vlahakes, MD, Associate Professor of Surgerya

a Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114–2696, USA

e-mail: vlahakes.gus@mgh.harvard.edu

Contemporary myocardial preservation has permitted cardiac surgeons to perform complex procedures on ill patients, including individuals with depressed ventricular function. Surgeons’ efforts have been directed toward using contemporary myocardial protection to prevent loss of function from perioperative myocardial infarction. Modern surgical techniques and refined surgical decision making have made acute perioperative infarction and major decrements in cardiac function a much less common occurrence in our field; nonetheless surgeons are often . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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