Papillary muscle resection as a treatment for midventricular obstruction.
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.
Kochi
Kazuhiro
K
First Department of Surgery, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, Japan.
Okada
Kenji
K
Watari
Masanobu
M
Orihashi
Kazumasa
K
Sueda
Taijiro
T
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*