Left ventricular reduction in a Jehovah's Witness.
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.
McMullan
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Department of Surgery, Texas Heart Institute, Houston 77225-0345, USA.
Beyer
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Gregoric
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Radovancevic
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Frazier
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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