Krzysztof Wrobel, Susanna R Stevens, Robert H Jones, Craig H Selzman, Andre Lamy, Thomas M Beaver, Ljubomir T Djokovic, Nan Wang, Eric J Velazquez, George Sopko, Irving L Kron, J Michael DiMaio, Robert E Michler, Kerry L Lee, Michael Yii, Chua Yeow Leng, Marian Zembala, Jean L Rouleau, Richard C Daly, Hussein R Al-Khalidi
BACKGROUND: Patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction, ischemic heart failure, and coronary artery disease suitable for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) are at higher risk for surgical morbidity and mortality. Paradoxically, those patients with the most severe coronary artery disease and ventricular dysfunction who derive the greatest clinical benefit from CABG are also at the greatest operative risk, which makes decision making regarding whether to proceed to surgery difficult in such patients...
August 25, 2015: Circulation