title: Left ventricular reduction in a Jehovah's Witness.
abstract: For Jehovah's Witnesses with severe heart failure, left ventricular reduction surgery may be a satisfactory alternative to cardiac transplantation. Compared with transplantation, left ventricular reduction surgery can involve less blood loss thus decreasing the need for blood-volume replacement. More importantly, left ventricular reduction surgery obviates the need for a donor organ.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Texas Heart Institute, Houston 77225-0345, USA.
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: McMullan
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Beyer
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Gregoric
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Radovancevic
authors.forename: O H
authors.initials: OH
authors.lastname: Frazier
mesh_terms: D002311:Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / Q000601:surgery*; D002835:Christianity; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000601:surgery