“…First described by Cooley in 1958, surgical ventricular reconstruction promised improvements in LV volumes, ejection fraction, functional class, and even survival. 1,2 Since then, a variety of techniques, with and without cardiopulmonary bypass, have been described. [2][3][4] Onohura and colleagues 5 report the results of an experimental trial of an LV shaping device used in a rat model of ischemic cardiomyopathy.…”