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Indian Heart J
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2003 Jul-Aug; 55(4): 370-2
Article
in English
| IMSEAR
| ID: sea-3269
ABSTRACT
We report the case of a patient who needed mitral valve replacement but was at a high risk of myocardial injury with the conventional technique (cardioplegic arrest on cardiopulmonary bypass). Valve replacement was carried out on a beating heart on cardiopulmonary bypass by perfusing the heart continuously with oxygenated noncardioplegic normothermic blood via the coronary sinus.