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[prasannasimha]

Trust your gut.
Not every patient needs to spend his last days being chopped up.
More importantly what does the patient away from pressure from relatives 
want ?.

Hgrmd at aol.com wrote:
> Prasanna,
>   I think the classic indications for surgery are there.  The  patient is 
> Class III-IV with probably severe a.s., mod-severe MR, 3VD, and EF of  15%.  I'm 
> just not convinced that all that work in the OR will result in a  live patient 
> with a reasonable prognosis.
> Hal
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