A corrective cardiac procedure in which a large piece of a patient's own latissimus dorsi muscle is wrapped around the heart and stimulated by an implanted pacemaker to assist the pumping action of a damaged heart

a) myocardial infarction
b) tetrology of Fallot
c) cardiomyopathy
d) cardiomegaly
e) cardiomyoplasty


e

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