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Equipment and Supplies > Surgically-Created Structures > Skeletal Muscle Ventricle
Tissues > Surgically-Created Structures > Skeletal Muscle Ventricle

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Skeletal Muscle Ventricle  

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Note

  • autol skeletal musc wrapped around heart & electrically stimulated to provide mechanical heart assist

Scope note

  • Autologous skeletal muscle that is wrapped around the heart and electrically stimulated in order to provide mechanical heart assistance. The latissimus dorsi muscle is commonly used to form this ventricle that functions to independently augment cardiac performance by pumping in series with the heart.

History note

  • 98; was see CARDIOMYOPLASTY 1995-97

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D019739

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