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Original Articles: Adult Cardiac

Invited Commentary

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Oita University, 1-1 Idaigaoka, Hasama-machi, Yufu-shi, Oi 879-5593, Japan

(Email: smiyamot@med.oita-u.ac.jp).

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Montegut [1] reported the first surgically treated survivor from left ventricular rupture associated with ischemic heart disease in 1972. Since then several different surgical techniques have been proposed. However, the most appropriate surgical procedure remains controversial because each report has a limited number of cases and various strategies were applied from individual to individual. This report is significant in presenting a series of 32 patients treated with almost the same procedure [2]. We are likely to see fewer excisions of infarct segments . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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