Treatment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy by mitral valve repair and septal myectomy

Ann Thorac Surg. 1994 Apr;57(4):1025-7. doi: 10.1016/0003-4975(94)90233-x.

Abstract

This report describes surgical treatment consisting of mitral valve repair and septal myectomy in a young patient with a combination of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and intrinsic mitral valve disease. The posterior mitral valve leaflet was elongated and was subject to systolic anterior motion, creating left ventricular outflow tract obstruction. With the described treatment, it was possible to avoid mitral valve replacement in this patient.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / complications
  • Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / diagnostic imaging
  • Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / surgery*
  • Echocardiography, Doppler
  • Echocardiography, Transesophageal
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Mitral Valve Insufficiency / complications
  • Mitral Valve Insufficiency / diagnostic imaging
  • Mitral Valve Insufficiency / physiopathology
  • Mitral Valve Insufficiency / surgery*
  • Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / complications
  • Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / diagnostic imaging
  • Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / surgery*