Adding surgical ventricular reconstruction to coronary artery bypass grafting could reduce the mortality risk by increasing ejection fraction for those with a postoperative end-systolic volume index within a specific range. The postoperative end-systolic volume index could demarcate responders to surgical ventricular reconstruction, and its estimation can help in surgical decision making.
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