Current readings: Surgical management of heart failure.

Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg

Department of Surgery. Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.. Electronic address:

Published: July 2014

There are a myriad of surgical therapies for patients with end-stage congestive heart failure. Coronary revascularization and mitral valve repair have clear clinical benefits in appropriately selected patients. Further investigation is required before the widespread adoption of volume-reduction strategies. Cardiac stem cell therapies have yielded promising results in preclinical and phase I studies.

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