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Septal myectomy for left ventricular outflow tract obstruction after mitral valve repair
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|May 1, 1994
Abstract:
We describe a patient with a left ventricular outflow tract obstruction after mitral valve repair. Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography permitted us to recognize the role of a bulging septum in the development of a systolic motion of the mitral valve. A left ventricular septal myectomy and myotomy was able to relieve the left ventricular outflow tract obstruction and the systolic anterior motion of the mitral valve.