title: Papillary muscle resection as a treatment for midventricular obstruction.
abstract: We have experienced a surgically treated case of midventricular obstruction. A simple mitral valve replacement was effective to relieve the obstruction and to increase the cavity of the left ventricular outflow tract without a myectomy through the aortic valve.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Surgery, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: Kazuhiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kochi
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Okada
authors.forename: Masanobu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Watari
authors.forename: Kazumasa
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Orihashi
authors.forename: Taijiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sueda
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004452:Echocardiography; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D005260:Female; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D010210:Papillary Muscles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D014694:Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / Q000601:surgery*