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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002;124:886-890
© 2002 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery


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The Dor procedure: What has changed after fifteen years of clinical practice?

Lorenzo Menicanti, MDa, Marisa Di Donato, MDb

From San Donato Hospital, Milan, Italy,a and the Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.b

Received for publication June 27, 2002. Accepted for publication July 1, 2002. Address for reprints: Lorenzo Menicanti, MD, Chief in Cardiac Surgery, Istituto Policlinico San Donato, Cardiac Surgery, Via Morandi 30, San Donato Milanese 20097, Italy.

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Heart failure is a major health problem with increasing prevalence due partly to an aged population and more effective treatment of acute myocardial infarction. Postinfarction left ventricular remodeling is characterized by chamber dilatation and abnormal shape leading to systolic and diastolic dysfunction. In advanced form, it leads to the heart failure syndrome and is progressive. Intensive medical management reduces symptoms and improves survival. However, patients who are in functional class III or IV have a poor 3-year prognosis.Go Go 1-3 Recently, surgical approaches have been designed to abort and reverse remodeling, diminish heart failure, and improve survival. With minor modifications, this surgical approach uses the Dor procedure.

Surgical therapy achieves the following:

  1. Relieves ischemia by coronary revascularization.
  2. Diminishes ventricular volume.
  3. Restores the ventricle to more normal geometry.
  4. Further diminishes volume overload by mitral valve repair when appropriate.


    History of the Dor procedure
 
In 1985, Dor described an original surgical technique built on prior contributions by Cooley, Keith, and Jatene.Go Go 4-7 The Dor procedure excludes akinetic or dyskinetic portions of the ventricle, reshapes the ventricle with a stitch that encircles the transitional zone between contractile and noncontractile myocardium, and uses a small patch to reestablish ventricular wall continuity at the level of the purse-string suture.


    Pathophysiology of postinfarction remodeling
 
Early reperfusion procedures for acute myocardial infarction, whether by thrombolysis or angioplasty, have altered the pathologic changes that follow acute myocardial infarction. Reperfusion produces epicardial and, occasionally, mid-myocardial sparing while leaving endocardial necrosis. Persistence of viable ventricular muscle frequently trades left ventricular dyssynergy for asynergy, with some preservation of wall thickness. When one third or more of the ventricular perimeter is involved, left ventricular volume markedly increases, the apical and basal portions become rounded, and pump function is globally depressed. This condition resembles dilated nonischemic cardiomyopathy more than classic dyskinetic aneurysm. Extension . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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