1. The outcome of cardiac surgery in high-risk quaternary referral patients
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J. Stephen Billing, Stephen R. Large, and Adrian Ooi
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Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine ,Heart transplantation ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Ejection fraction ,business.industry ,medicine.medical_treatment ,EuroSCORE ,Perioperative ,medicine.disease ,Cardiac surgery ,Surgery ,Angina ,Transplantation ,Coronary artery bypass surgery ,Internal medicine ,cardiovascular system ,medicine ,Cardiology ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business - Abstract
Cardiac transplantation is limited by donor availability and carries a considerable perioperative mortality in addition to continuing morbidity and mortality post-transplant. Some patients referred for transplantation may benefit from non-transplant cardiac surgery. This study assessed the results of non-transplant cardiac surgery in this high-risk group of patients over the 5-year period 1996-2001. Twenty-five such patients underwent conventional cardiac surgery and these were highly symptomatic, with angina and dyspnoea. All had impaired left ventricular function, 20 having left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF)
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- 2003
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