Surgical ventricular restoration: technique and outcomes.
Surgical ventricular restoration is a surgical procedure developed in an attempt to reverse the negative remodeling that occurs following myocardial infarction. The goal of the procedure is to: 1) reduce the size and restore the normal elliptical shape of the heart; 2) perform a complete myocardial revascularization; and 3) repair any mitral insufficiency. This article will review the surgical procedure and describe outcomes achieved with surgical ventricular restoration.
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Blalock 618, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA. jconte@csurg.jhmi.jhu.edu
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D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications*; D009204:Myocardial Revascularization; D020257:Ventricular Remodeling / Q000502:physiology*