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Left ventricular reconstruction operations are being reexamined as surgical therapies to address the geometry of the failing heart in patients with end-stage heart failure.
Left ventricular reconstruction operations are being explored as surgical alternatives for end-stage heart failure due to donor organ shortages.
May expand surgical options amid donor shortages; leaves open efficacy and safety without new randomized trials.
The significant increase in the prevalence of heart failure in the United States has made this disease a major health problem. The continued shortage of donor organs has prevented heart transplantation from becoming an effective solution for the treatment of end-stage heart failure, and as a result, surgical treatments for heart failure have been reexamined. Surgical therapies represent the evolution of conventional operations, such as coronary artery bypass surgery, and the application of the more novel left ventricular (LV) reconstruction operations which address the geometry of the LV, the important component in the failing heart.
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Lee et al. (2004) conducted a review in Congestive Heart Failure. Ventricular reconstruction surgery was evaluated. Left ventricular reconstruction operations are being reexamined as surgical therapies to address the geometry of the failing heart in patients with end-stage heart failure.
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