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Anaesthesia for Cardiomyoplasty DL Greenhulgh, D Barman, TL Hooper Department

of Anaesthesia,

Wythenshawe

Hospital,

Manchester,

U.K.

Abstract 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., Reprinted

from Anuesthesia 1993;48:972-4.

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