INTRODUCTION
Surgery for exclusion of scars following LAD infarction started during the ‘40s, but changed over time due to a better knowledge of the pathophysiology of the disease and to the technical improvements in cardiopulmonary bypass, oxygenators and myocardial protection.
However, many of the techniques described during the last 70 years were changed, or even copied, and named differently without giving credit to the surgeon(s) who conceived the original procedure. This peculiar aspect of the history of left ventricular surgical reshaping (LVSR) has never been focused correctly. This is evident in reviews about LVSR techniques1-3, where similar procedures have different names, generating confusion.
In this report we want to describe the original techniques described during the decades, that are at the basis of all the procedures applied in this field, even if differently named.