• Eur J Cardiothorac Surg · Jul 2009

    Case Reports

    Septal myectomy for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy: coil, boil and the role of rescue surgery.

    • Thierry Carrel and Jürg Schmidli.
    • Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Berne, Berne, Switzerland. thierry.carrel@insel.ch
    • Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2009 Jul 1;36(1):210-1.

    AbstractInterventional treatment of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy has considerably developed and primary surgical approach is nowadays considered for a minority of patients with insufficient relief of obstruction following catheter intervention. We present the history of a patient who underwent alcohol ablation and developed a life-threatening ventricular septal defect consecutively to a large myocardial infarction because of alcohol injection into the LAD.

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