Technique for ventricular wrapping in experimental dynamic cardiomyoplasty.
Cardiomyoplasty is a wrapping of an electrostimulated latissimus dorsi muscle flap around the heart for substitution and/or reinforcement. The surgical technique for reproducible cardiomyoplasties in the goat model is presented. The methods combine the direction of wrapping (clockwise, counter-clockwise) and the orientation of muscle fibers. A cardiomyoplasty model using right and left latissimus dorsi or left latissimus dorsi and pectoralis major as well as a split muscle technique are illustrated.
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital of Liège, Domaine du Sart Tilman, Belgium.
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Radermecker
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Bonnet
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Philippart
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Fourny
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Serteyn
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Limet
D000818:Animals; D018421:Cardiomyoplasty / Q000379:methods*; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D006041:Goats; D009132:Muscles / Q000637:transplantation; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous