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Cardiomyoplasty
Cardiomyoplasty (dynamic cardiomyoplasty): surgery wrapping stimulated latissimus dorsi muscle around the failing heart, first performed 1985 in Paris by Carpentier and Chachques; improved symptoms but was abandoned for inconsistent hemodynamic benefit.
Claude Beck
Claude Schaeffer Beck (1894–1971) was an American cardiac surgeon in Cleveland who performed the first successful human defibrillation in 1947 and described Beck's triad of cardiac tamponade.
Myectomy
Septal myectomy is an open-heart operation that removes part of a thickened heart septum to relieve obstruction in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, pioneered around 1960 and now among the safest open-heart procedures.
Pericardial window
A pericardial window is a surgical operation removing a small portion of the pericardium, the sac around the heart, so excess fluid drains continuously into the pleural cavity.
Pericardiectomy
Pericardiectomy is a cardiac operation that removes part or all of the pericardium, the sac around the heart, and is the definitive treatment for constrictive pericarditis.
Pericardiotomy
Pericardiotomy is a surgical incision in the pericardium, the fibrous sac surrounding the heart, to drain accumulated fluid, relieve cardiac tamponade, or give direct access to the heart; a limited-access form is called a pericardial window.
Septal ablation
Septal ablation, or alcohol septal ablation, is a catheter-based procedure that injects alcohol into a heart artery to relieve obstruction in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, first performed in 1994.
Septal reduction therapy
Septal reduction therapy (SRT) is a group of invasive treatments for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, chiefly surgical septal myectomy, an open-heart operation, and alcohol septal ablation, a catheter procedure.
Surgical ventricular reconstruction
Surgical ventricular reconstruction (SVR), most often the Dor procedure, is a cardiac operation that reshapes the scarred left ventricle after a heart attack, usually combined with coronary bypass grafting.
Transmyocardial Laser Revascularization
Transmyocardial laser revascularization (TMLR, transmyocardial revascularization, TMR) is a surgical procedure drilling 10-50 laser channels through the left ventricle to treat refractory angina; FDA-approved in 1998, later judged obsolete.