Ventriculectomy, or ventricular reduction, is a type of operation in
cardiac surgery
Cardiac surgery, or cardiovascular surgery, is surgery on the heart or great vessels performed by cardiac surgeons. It is often used to treat complications of ischemic heart disease (for example, with coronary artery bypass grafting); to co ...
to reduce enlargement of the
heart
The heart is a muscular organ in most animals. This organ pumps blood through the blood vessels of the circulatory system. The pumped blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the body, while carrying metabolic waste such as carbon dioxide to t ...
from
cardiomyopathy or ischemic aneurysm formation. In these procedures, part of the ventricular wall is resected.
A
Batista procedure is a partial left ventriculectomy that is used to treat advanced heart failure.
[ This procedure is not widely used because outcomes are often unsatisfactory.]
See also
* Dor procedure
The Dor procedure is a medical technique used as part of heart surgery and originally introduced by the French cardiac surgeon Vincent Dor (b.1932). It is also known as endoventricular circular patch plasty (EVCPP).
In 1985, Dor introduced EVCPP ...
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