Fig. 2

Sequence of the PARACHUTE device implantation in the left ventricle. The operation was performed through the femoral artery (a). LV angiography was executed to observe the systolic (b) and diastolic (c) LV geometry. The device was placed in contact within the LV apical wall (d). After balloon inflation to facilitate device expansion, the LV geometric reconfiguration was evaluated in the systolic (e) and diastolic (f) phases. The white dotted line indicates the outline of the chamber morphological characteristics before the device implantation. The white arrow indicates the implanted PARACHUTE device