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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2006;29:S213-S215
© 2006 Elsevier Science NL

Editorial

Tenth RESTORE Group Meeting: overview

Gerald D. Buckberg a , b , * , the RESTORE Group

a Option on Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
b David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Box 951741, 62-258 CHS, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1741, USA

* Corresponding author. Address: Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 62-258 Center for the Health Sciences, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1701, USA. Tel.: +1 310 206 1027; fax: +1 310 825 5895. (Email: gbuckberg@mednet.ucla.edu).

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A collaborative approach to congestive heart failure management has evolved within the International RESTORE Team comprised of cardiologists and surgeons, representing the four continents of North America (United States), Europe, South America and Asia. This group celebrated its 10th conference at the AATS meeting in San Francisco, and Table 1 lists the sites of prior gatherings. The goals of this integrated team include discussion and application of new concepts about understanding and managing the spectrum of diseases that cause dilated cardiomyopathy from ischemic, valvular and nonischemic causes. Interaction during meetings always includes input from non-RESTORE experts with novel views on CHF topics.


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  		Table 1. Summary of sites for the last 10 RESTORE meetings
 
The initial data relating to RESTORE results following restoration after ischemic cardiomyopathy after anterior infarction was reported in JACC in 2000 [1] and this information was the surgical stimulus for development of the STICH trial; and 5-year RESTORE results were reported in 2004 [2]. A recent summary of the collaborative output was recently published in Heart Failure Reviews, a medical journal that asked the RESTORE team to describe the broad range of considerations, with data output occupying 10 manuscripts [3–12] that fill the entire Journal. This publication is predominantly distributed to cardiologists, whose evaluation of CHF patients and recognition of the restoration potential is seminal for the evolution of rebuilding anatomy to reunite form and function for clinical improvement.

The diagnostic and follow-up role of MRI was presented to determine if this imaging modality could provide ‘one stop shopping’ to obtain several established clinical guidelines. These include recognition of the amount of asynergy, remote muscle evaluation, end systolic volume index, ejection fraction, wall thickness, viability of ischemic and remote muscle . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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