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Roughly speaking, the healthy heart is shaped something like a football. Beset by congestive heart failure, the heart begins to dilate, expanding and reshaping to take on a spherical “basketball” look, according to Douglas Mann, MD, a cardiologist affiliated with the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine (both Houston).

CorCap reshapes the failing heart as more energetic ‘football’