| Septal Myectomy for Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy in a Child |
(Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tsukuba University Hospital, Tsukuba, Japan and Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Ibaraki Childrenfs Hospital*, Mito, Japan)
| Yukiko Ban* |
Yuji Hiramatsu |
Mio Noma |
| Hideyuki Kato |
Akihiko Ikeda |
Shinya Kanemoto |
| Masakazu Abe* |
Yuzuru Sakakibara |
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A 6-year-old boy who had been found to have hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy presented with severely limited symptoms of heart failure due to progressive left ventricular outflow obstruction. Cardiac catheterization revealed the peak systolic pressure gradient of 87mmHg at left ventricular outflow, and systolic anterior motion of the anterior mitral leaflet with concomitant mitral regurgitation was observed by echocardiography. Transaortic septal myectomy was performed using transesophageal echocardiography guidance before, during and after surgery. Although the patient needed permanent pacemaker implantation for postoperative complete heart block, the procedure reduced the left ventricular outflow obstruction and relieved his symptoms.
@Jpn. J. Cardiovasc. Surg. 37: 221-225 (2008) |
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