Left ventricular reduction in a Jehovah's Witness.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
For Jehovah's Witnesses with severe heart failure, left ventricular reduction surgery may be a satisfactory alternative to cardiac transplantation. Compared with transplantation, left ventricular reduction surgery can involve less blood loss thus decreasing the need for blood-volume replacement. More importantly, left ventricular reduction surgery obviates the need for a donor organ.
Medical subject headings
- Cardiomyopathy, Dilated
- Christianity
- Heart Ventricles