In the hybrid room of the Hemodynamics and Angiography Laboratory (Clinical Department of Interventional Cardiology with Intensive Cardiac Care Unit) at the St. John Paul II Specialized Hospital in Krakow, the first successful in Europe and the second in the world innovative procedure of percutaneous repair of the shape of the left ventricle of a failing heart, by bringing the papillary muscles closer together, was performed.
According to the medical center, the procedure was performed entirely endovascularly (from access through the femoral artery, without opening the chest) in a 51-year-old patient, suffering from heart failure due to so-called dilated cardiomyopathy since the age of 18.
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