title: Left ventricular aneurysms: the endoventricular circular patch plasty.
abstract: The endoventricular circular patch plasty (EVCPP) technique was first used by us in 1984 to re-establish a more normal morphology of the left ventricular cavity distorted by post-myocardial infarction scar tissue. This technique includes the placement of a subendocardial circumferential pursestring suture inside the left ventricle around the base of the aneurysm at the junction of scarred and normal endocardium. A patch is then placed at this level to establish a new contour for the left ventricular cavity. Because this patch is placed at the junction of scar and normal endocardium, a substantial portion of the distal ventricular septum is excluded from the left ventricular cavity. The overall hospital mortality in our series of more than 715 cases is approximately 7% and, in the survivors, the ejection fraction is increased an average of 0.10.
authors.affiliation: Cardio-Thoracic Center of Monaco, Monte Carlo, Monaco.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Dor
mesh_terms: D006322:Heart Aneurysm / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods