title: [Cardiac surgery for patients with ventricular dysfunction].
abstract: Coronary artery disease and aortic stenosis/regurgitation may cause irreversible myocardial damage, resulting in significant heart failure. Although the ultimate treatment of the end-stage heart failure is heart transplantation or ventricular assist devices, in most cases these patients still have some amount of functional and survival benefit by simple surgical treatment such as coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and valve replacement. However it is associated with significant perioperative mortality and morbidity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Doi
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yaku
mesh_terms: D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000601:surgery; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D018754:Ventricular Dysfunction / Q000150:complications*