title: Surgical treatment of left-ventricular outflow-tract obstruction guided by intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography.
abstract: Transesophageal echocardiography may provide additional morphologic information in many cases of cardiovascular disease when compared with the traditional transthoracic approach. In our department 3 male patients underwent surgical treatment with preoperative diagnosis of left-ventricular outflow-tract obstruction. We describe the intraoperative transesophageal echocardiographic findings and in which way they guided the surgical strategy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiac Surgery, S.M. Dei Battuti General Hospital, Treviso, Italy.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ius
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Salandin
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zussa
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Valfre
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000368:Aged; D004452:Echocardiography; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014694:Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*