in our approach to dynamic cardiomyoplasty , which consists of wrapping a skeletal muscle around the heart and stimulating the former in synchrony with heart contractions to augment ventricular contractility , we have transferred a latissimus dorsi muscle flap to the heart by way of a partial resection of the second rib and subsequently suturing the muscle flap around the ventricles .
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