Cardiac reinforcement device

Details Cardiac reinforcement device Cardiac reinforcement device

1996-10-02

1997-12-30

Getzow, Scott

Surgery

Internal organ support or sling

A61F 1300

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active

057023433

ABSTRACT:
The present disclosure is directed to a cardiac reinforcement device (CRD) and method for the treatment of cardiomyopathy. The CRD provides for reinforcement of the walls of the heart by constraining cardiac expansion, beyond a predetermined limit, during diastolic expansion of the heart. A CRD of the invention can be applied to the epicardium of the heart to locally constrain expansion of the cardiac wall or to circumferentially constrain the cardiac wall during cardiac expansion.

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