| Summary: | The high mortality and morbidity of patients in terminal heart failure are a therapeutic challenge to modern medicine. Surgically, cardiac transplantation is an excellent treatment for many patients. However, lack of donors combined with an increasing number of patients has led to the search for other surgical strategies. Although other common surgical methods’, such as Batista operation or dynamic cardiac myoplasty has a favorable outcome in selected patients, those method’s is currently not recommended for treatment of heart failure because of high surgical failure rates. The present paper reviews some of the relevant literature regarding surgical left ventricular remodeling in heart failure.
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