OBJECTIVE The appearance of atrial fibrillation is associated with significant clinical deterioration in patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; therefore, maintenance of sinus rhythm is desirable. Guidelines and most articles have reported the results of catheter ablation and pharmacologic atrial fibrillation treatment; nevertheless, data regarding concomitant procedures during ...

PURPOSE To compare the outcomes of surgical procedures in the treatment of inferior oblique muscle overaction (IOOA) as a common disorder of ocular motility. METHODS This retrospective study was performed on patients with primary and secondary IOOA who underwent three surgical treatment procedures including disinsertion, myectomy and anterior transposition, between 2001 and 2011. Type of stra...

AimsThe aims of this study are to investigate the incidence and determinants post-operative atrial arrhythmias, conduction disorders mortality in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) patients undergoing transaortic myectomy.Methods resultsThis retrospective single-center was conducted 249 (median age 54 years [40–64], 42% female) myectomy. Post-operative fibrillation (AF) reported 84 ...

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Heart Center, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany; Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia; The Baird Institute, Sydney, NSW, Australia and School of Medicine Fremantle, University of Notre Dame, Western Australia, Australia Correspondence to: Jurgen Passage. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery,...

The purpose of current study to evaluate the surgical outcomes of sensory strabismus. We retrospectively studied 7 consecutive patients who had undergone strabismus surgery for sensory strabismus. Patient age ranged from 14 to 48 years. Initial diagnoses were exotropia (n = 6) and esotropia (n = 1). In all patients, surgery was performed only on the affected eye. Initial types of operative proc...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common genetic cardiovascular disease characterized by a thickened non-dilated ventricle in the absence of another cardiac or systemic condition. Its most important hemodynamic consequence is left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) obstruction. The primary management strategy of this condition is surgical septal myectomy, but an acceptable alternative...

BACKGROUND Various surgical strategies designed to relieve left ventricular outflow tract obstruction (LVOTO) and correct mitral regurgitation (MR) in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) have evolved, yet reports on the long-term outcomes of each technique are scarce. We provide an update on over 20 years' experience at our institution in the standardized surgical treatment of HOCM. ...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to examine the value of dynamic three-dimensional (3D) transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) for the postoperative evaluation after extended myectomy and surgical reconstruction of the subvalvular mitral valve apparatus in patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM). BACKGROUND Two-dimensional imaging techniques such as echocardiography, ...