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AN HISTORICAL APPRAISAL OF THE TECHNIQUES OF LEFT VENTRICULAR VOLUME REDUCTION IN ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY: WHO DID WHAT?
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  • Antonio Calafiore,
  • Antonio Totaro,
  • Sotirios Prapas,
  • Kostas katsavrias,
  • Stefano Guarracini,
  • Roberto Lorusso,
  • Domenico Paparella,
  • Michele Di Mauro
Antonio Calafiore
Division of Cardiac Surgery A Henry Dunant Hospital Athens Greece

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Antonio Totaro
Department of Cardiovascular Sciences Gemelli Molise Campobasso Italy
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Sotirios Prapas
Division of Cardiac Surgery A Henry Dunant Hospital Athens Greece
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Kostas katsavrias
Division of Cardiac Surgery A Henry Dunant Hospital Athens Greece
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Stefano Guarracini
Department of Cardiology “Pierangeli” Hospital Pescara Italy
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Roberto Lorusso
Maastricht Universitair Medisch Centrum+
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Domenico Paparella
Universita degli Studi di Foggia Dipartimenti di Area Medica
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Michele Di Mauro
Universita degli Studi di Foggia Dipartimenti di Area Medica
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Abstract

Resection or exclusion of scars following a myocardial infarction on the LAD territory started even before the beginning of the modern era of cardiac surgery. Many techniques were developed, but there is still confusion on who did what. The original techniques underwent modifications that brought to a variety of apparently new procedures that, however, were only a “revisitation” of what described before. In some case old techniques were reproposed and renamed, without giving credit to the surgeon that was the original designer. Herein we try to describe which are the seminal procedures and some of the most important modifications, respecting however the merit of who first communicated the procedure to the scientific world.
06 Oct 2021Submitted to Journal of Cardiac Surgery
06 Oct 2021Submission Checks Completed
06 Oct 2021Assigned to Editor
10 Oct 2021Reviewer(s) Assigned
22 Oct 2021Review(s) Completed, Editorial Evaluation Pending
30 Oct 2021Editorial Decision: Accept
23 Nov 2021Published in Journal of Cardiac Surgery. 10.1111/jocs.16144