Echocardiography for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy

Echocardiography for Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy

How to cite this article: Irpachi K, Kumar KA, Pangasa N, Kapoor PM. Echocardiography for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy. Ann Card Anaesth 2017;20:279. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non‐commercially, as long as the author is...

Latent obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: is echocardiography enough?

Echocardiography-guided ethanol septal reduction for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy.

BACKGROUND Left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) obstruction is frequently responsible for symptoms in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM). Medical therapy is often not sufficient to control these symptoms, and surgical myotomy-myomectomy is required. METHODS AND RESULTS We enrolled 33 symptomatic patients with HOCM and obstruction (>/=40 mm Hg gradient at rest or >/=60 mm Hg dobut...

Surgery for Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy

D ynamic obstruction to left ventricular (LV) outflow as a result of mitral valve systolic anterior motion is a potentially deleterious facet of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).1-4 In many patients, outflow obstruction is largely responsible for disabling symptoms of heart failure such as exertional dyspnea (often with chest pain), fatigue, and orthopnea.ls3 Consequently, treatment interventi...

Surgery for Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy

Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) is an inherited disorder with variable expressivity, resulting in asymmetric septal hypertrophy and left ventricular outflow tract obstruction (LVOTO). Symptoms are similar to those of aortic stenosis and are due to LV diastolic dysfunction and myocardial ischemia in the absence of epicardial coronary narrowing. Goals of treatment include symptomat...