Patent ID: 7513867

Claim:
A method of altering blood flow through the left ventricle, comprising the steps of: providing an element which is movable between collapsed and expanded conditions; collapsing the element in a delivery device; advancing the element into the left ventricle in the collapsed condition with the delivery device; expanding the element in the left ventricle; evacuating blood from a non-blood flow side after the expanding step; and securing the element to the wall of the left ventricle to form a circumferential attachment to the wall of the left ventricle, wherein the element separates the left ventricle into a blood flow side and the non-blood flow side, the element forming a hemostatic seal at the circumferential attachment so that pressure in the blood flow side is not communicated to the non-blood flow side thereby reducing pressure on the ventricular wall of the non-blood flow side.