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Septal myectomy with loop electrosurgical electrode for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy
Jen-Ping Chang1, Chiung-Lun Kao, Cheng-I Cheng
1Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cardiology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Kaohsiung, Taiwan, People's Republic of China. c9112772@adm.cgmh.org.tw
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|June 30, 2004
Abstract:
Excellent results have been described for surgical relief of left ventricular outflow tract obstruction in patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy. Transaortic septal myectomy is technically demanding, especially when the lesion extends deep to the midcavity of left ventricle. A loop electrosurgical electrode is used to satisfactorily circumvent this problem.