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Heart failure is a condition describing the failure of the heart to deliver sufficient amounts of blood to meet the oxygen requirements of the body. This is caused by a structural and/or functional cardiac abnormality. While a myocardial infarction (MI), which is caused by the occlusion of a coronary artery supplying blood to the myocardium, is probably the best known and most common cause of heart failure, many other diseases may lead to such an outcome (1). An acute MI leads to loss of cardiac tissue due to necrosis, which leads to a deterioration of the structural integrity of the heart. Next, scar tissue is formed, followed by the thinning of the myocardium itself (2). To prevent the damage caused to the myocardium and relieve the stress on the thinning tissue, the concept of cardiomyoplasty was introduced. The idea behind it is that by using a physical support around the heart, either composed of the patient’s own …