cardiomyoplasty

Indications: - dilated cardiomyopathy - congestive heart failure Contraindications: - ineffective in patients with NYHA class IV symptoms Procedure: - mobilization of latissimus dorsi to form a skeletal muscle wraparound the cardiac ventricles Complications: - perioperative mortality is 20%.

References

Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 11, American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 1998