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Anaesthesia for cardiomyoplasty
Author(s) -
GREENHALGH D. L.,
BARMAN D.,
HOOPER T. L.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1993.tb07477.x
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiomyoplasty , anesthesia , heart failure , cardiology
Summary Cardiomyoplasty is a new surgical procedure for the treatment of severe heart failure, but early mortality has been high in the preliminary experience of many centres. This report describes the anaesthetic techniques used for the first two successful cases to be performed in the UK.