Key result
Surgical ventricular restoration with a sizer effectively reconstructs left ventricular volume and shape post-infarction.
Why the study?
The surgical ventricular restoration technique for left ventricle aneurysm and dilated post-AMI cardiomyopathy requires adaptation due to variable scar extent and altered ventricular geometry.
Surgical ventricular restoration using a sizer and combining different surgical techniques allows for rebuilding a ventricle with appropriate volume and shape.
The surgical ventricular restoration is an evolution of treatment of left ventricle aneurysm. The aetioloy of left ventricle aneurysm and the dilated post AMI cardiomiopaty is the same; the difference is in the extension of scarred tissue and in the quality of remote zone. Because in this anatomical situation the geometry of left left ventricle can be deeply affected, it can very difficult to have point of reference as position of apex or papillary mussles. Using a sizer and combine different surgical thecniques allow to rebuilt a ventricle with appropriate volume and shape.
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Lorenzo Menicanti (2021) conducted a review in Left ventricle aneurysm and dilated post-AMI cardiomyopathy. Surgical ventricular restoration using a sizer and combined surgical techniques was evaluated. Surgical ventricular restoration using a sizer and combined surgical techniques allows for the rebuilding of a left ventricle with appropriate volume and shape in post-infarction remodeling.
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