Endoventricular spiral plication for ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy

FIGURE 1. A and B, Endoventricular spiral plication technique schema. A, Ple in a clockwise direction. The remaining opening of the ventricle could be clos gathering the wall of the left ventricle (LV) and reducing the distance between longand short-axis magnetic resonance images (C and D, respectively) with t shape, and thickness of the left ventricular wall is revealed. RV, Right ventricle From the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, The Sakakibara Heart Institute of Okayama, Okayama, Japan. Disclosures: Authors have nothing to disclose with regard to commercial support. Received for publication Nov 28, 2011; revisions received Dec 16, 2011; accepted for publication Jan 4, 2012; available ahead of print Feb 1, 2012. Address for reprints: Arudo Hiraoka, MD, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, The Sakakibara Heart Institute of Okayama, 2-1-10 Marunouchi, Okayama, 7000823, Japan (E-mail: bassbord1028@yahoo.co.jp). J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2012;144:269-70 0022-5223/$36.00 Copyright 2012 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery doi:10.1016/j.jtcvs.2012.01.013