Selective contrast echocardiography in percutaneous transluminal septal myocardial ablation in an elderly patient with left ventricular concentric hypertrophy.
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.
Vieira
Marcelo L C
ML
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
Silva Filho
Roderick M
RM
Brito Filho
Fábio S
FS
Leal
Samira B
SB
Lira Filho
Edgar B
EB
Fischer
Cláudio H
CH
de Souza
José A
JA
Perin
Marcos A
MA
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