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Original Articles: Adult Cardiac

Invited Commentary

Department of Cardiac Surgery, ZOL – Campus St-Jan, Schiepse Bos 6, Genk 3600, Belgium

(Email: robert.dion@zol.be).

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The authors [1] have chosen to measure left ventricular reverse remodeling as a reduction in left ventricle end-systolic volume of greater than 15%. This may be a concern because echocardiography is not the best tool to measure ventricular volumes and sphericity.

As in our study [2], the lack of viability data can be considered a limitation; when viable myocardium subsists in a strategically important area of the ventricle, coronary revascularization may have a preponderant influence. On the other hand, when the ejection fraction is lower . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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