Echocardiographic patterns in 15 patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy were compared with those in 30 healthy persons. Correlations with angiocardiographic data indicated that most of the anatomical abnormalities in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy can be assessed reliably by echocardiography. These include abnormal mitral valve motion, a reduction of the anteroposterior dimension of the left ve...

today, congenital heart diseases may be treated without surgery through advances in interventional cardiology. however, complications such as infection and thrombus formation may develop due to foreign materials used during these procedures. surgical intervention may be required for the removal of the device utilized for the procedure. in this case report, we present the surgical treatment of a...

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...

We present an alternative technique for closing multiple ventricular septal defects difficult to access during surgery. A guidewire is advanced through the right ventricular free wall and through the main apical defect to the left ventricle, and this approach is used to place an Amplatzer device to occlude the ventricular septal defects. The procedure is performed in the beating heart, under in...

Echocardiography was used to evaluate the incidence, flow dynamics and morphological characteristics of right ventricular obstruction in 91 patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Color flow mapping was used to define the sites of obstruction in the left and right ventricles. Ventricular obstruction was considered to be present if the flow velocity was less than 2.0 m/s as measured by contin...

BACKGROUND Mid-ventricular obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (MVOHC) is a rare type of cardiomyopathy. The diagnosis is based on the hourglass appearance on the left ventriculogram and the presence of pressure gradient between apical and basal chamber of the ventriculum on the hemodynamic assessment. CASE PRESENTATION The present case represents successful percutaneous treatment with se...

This analysis concerns Fallot's tetralogy, a form of cyanotic congenital heart disease about which there is little information relating to the population of north east England, and attempts to assess the influence of familial and other variables possibly concerned in its aetiology. This disease of the heart is named after Fallot who described it in 1888, though it had been recognized as a clini...

OBJECTIVES The goal of our study was to report our intermediate-term results with aortic root translocation plus arterial switch for d-transposition of the great arteries with left ventricular outflow tract obstruction. BACKGROUND A d-transposition of the great arteries with left ventricular outflow tract obstruction represents a difficult surgical problem. The Rastelli procedure is the usual...

Left ventricular outflow tract obstruction, which is typically associated with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, is the third most frequent cause of unexplained hypotension. This underestimated problem may temporarily accompany various diseases (it is found in even <1% of patients with no tangible cardiac disease) and clinical situations (hypovolemia, general anesthesia). It is currently assumed tha...

BACKGROUND We tested the value of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the follow-up of patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy after septal artery embolization. MRI provides a noninvasive visualization of transplanar turbulent flow in order to quantify left ventricular outflow tract obstruction. METHODS AND RESULTS We followed 10 patients who were treated with septal artery embo...