Patent ID: 7097611
Filing Date: 2006-08-29
Classification: A61F,A61M,A61N,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method for providing reverse remodeling of a heart having congestive heart failure, comprising: providing a cardiac harness that is self-sizing; providing a delivery device for releasably attaching to the heart; delivering the cardiac harness to the heart with the delivery device by minimally invasive access; releasably attaching the delivery device to the heart to provide traction by which the cardiac harness can be pushed onto the heart; mounting the cardiac harness on the heart so that the self-sizing harness automatically conforms to the size of the heart; the cardiac harness providing elastic resistance to stretch during diastole and contractile augmentation during systole; and decreasing elastic resistance of the cardiac harness as reverse remodeling of the heart occurs.