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Epicardial catheter-based ventricular reconstruction: a novel therapy for ischaemic heart failure with anteroapical aneurysm

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

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Source Name: Interactive Journal of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: http://icvts.oxfordjournals.org/content/17/6/915.abstract

Author(s)

Yanping Cheng, Michael S. Aboodi, Andrew S. Wechsler, Greg L. Kaluza, Juan F. Granada, Kevin Van Bladel, Lon S. Annest, and Geng-Hua Yi

The authors performed off-pump left ventricular reconstruction for ischemic cardiomyopathy in ovine model applying epicardial catheter-based ventricular reconstruction. Six weeks after ventricular reconstruction end-systolic volume was decreased by 38% and ejection fraction increased by 13%. Histopathology showed appreciable reduction of the chronic infarct in the left ventricle.