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Femoral Bypass with Left Thoracotomy for Submitral Left Ventricular Aneurysm

Department of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery 1 Department of Anaesthesiology 2 Department of Cardiology Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology Thiruvananthapuram, India

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A simplified technique for repair of submitral left ventricular aneurysm is presented. Since the patient had no mitral regurgitation the aneurysm was approached through a left thoracotomy with femorofemoral bypass and the repair was technically simple.