Corresponding author: Fernanda Santos Silva Azinhaga das Galhardas, 181, 3oA 1600-470 Lisboa, Portugal e.mail: [email protected] A 73 year old woman with a previous diagnosis of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) and severe mitral regurgitation was scheduled for transaortic septal myectomy (Morrow procedure) and mitral reconstruction/replacement. After anesthesia induction,...

PURPOSE Recurrence of inferior oblique overaction (IOOA) after recession or anterior transposition of the inferior oblique (IO) muscles is a common problem. We have been treating such cases by nasal myectomy of the IO, where a segment of approximately 5 mm is removed from the nasal portion, leaving the temporal portion of the IO with its insertion and its ancillary origin, the neurofibrovascula...

Left ventricular outflow tract obstruction (LVOTO) in classic hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy is caused by a combination of septal hypertrophy and systolic anterior motion of the mitral valve (SAM). Invasive treatment of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) is reserved for patients with severe drug refractory symptoms and LVOTO, and has historically aimed to reduce the thickne...

BACKGROUND Coronary cameral fistulas are an uncommon entity, the etiology of which may be congenital or traumatic. They involve abnormal termination of a coronary artery, usually the right coronary, into a cardiac chamber, usually the right ventricle. CASE PRESENTATION We describe a case of female patient with severe aortic stenosis and interventricular septal hypertrophy that underwent biopr...