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Echo-guided transaortic left ventricular myotomy for idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis
1Department of Medical Engineering and Cardiology, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
The Science Reports of the Research Institutes, Tohoku University. Ser. C, Medicine. Tohoku Daigaku
|December 1, 1991
Abstract:
Idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis (IHSS) is a progressive cardiac disease known to induce sudden death occasionally. The authors tested echocardiography as a method of guiding myotomy, and observed its clinical usefulness as a safe surgical procedure for IHSS.