title: Reduce or reshape, this is the question!
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiac Surgery, I.R.C.C.S Policlinico San Donato, Milan, Italy menicanti@libero.it.
authors.forename: Lorenzo A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Menicanti
mesh_terms: D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000601:surgery*; D020257:Ventricular Remodeling / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: Congestive heart failure; Myocardial remodelling; Surgical ventricular reconstruction