title: Selective contrast echocardiography in percutaneous transluminal septal myocardial ablation in an elderly patient with left ventricular concentric hypertrophy.
abstract: We report an elderly patient, with hypertension and left ventricular concentric hypertrophy with sigmoid shape of the septum, who presented an unsatisfactory response to medical treatment and who was successfully submitted to myocardial contrast echocardiography-guided percutaneous transluminal septal myocardial ablation.
authors.affiliation: Division of Imaging Diagnosis, Echocardiography Laboratory Department of Cardiology Division of Imaging Diagnosis, Hemodynamic Laboratory, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil. mlcviera@aol.com
authors.forename: Marcelo L C
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Vieira
authors.forename: Roderick M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Silva Filho
authors.forename: Fábio S
authors.initials: FS
authors.lastname: Brito Filho
authors.forename: Samira B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Leal
authors.forename: Edgar B
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Lira Filho
authors.forename: Cláudio H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Fischer
authors.forename: José A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: de Souza
authors.forename: Marcos A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Perin
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017115:Catheter Ablation; D004452:Echocardiography; D006346:Heart Septum / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications; D017379:Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male