Objective: Review two studies that assess alcohol septal ablation (ASA) and surgical myectomy as treatment options for patients with drug refractory hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM). Background: Controversy exists regarding these two forms of treatment for HCOM. Design: Two observational cohort studies. Methods: A search was done on PubMed, utilizing the terms “hypertrophic cardio...

Concomitant mitral valve surgery during septal myectomy for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is performed in <10% of patients and associated with increased mortality. The objective this study to evaluate the feasibility, safety, outcomes transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) HCM regurgitation (MR) after myectomy. Consecutive cases at a single center from 01/2019 06/2022 (n=90) were retrospe...

purpose: to determine the effect of recession and myectomy on inferior oblique overaction (iooa). method: this study was performed on 50 patients (82 eyes) scheduled for iooa surgery who were randomly divided into two groups: recession (r) versus myectomy (m). a complete eye examination was performed before the operation. io was cut off at its inferior temporal region when using m procedure. in...

Background Surgical myectomy is regarded as a gold standard treatment for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) and may be conducted using different approaches, depending on the location of the thickened heart muscle, to widen the outflow tract and thereby reduce outflow drag to favorably alter the natural course of HCM. We present a novel approach for patient-specific visualization of precise loca...

The study was conducted to evaluate the surgical results in patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) who underwent either classic Morrow septal myectomy or modified procedure.The modified Morrow septal myectomy has gained interest as a new treatment for patients with drug-refractory symptoms of HOCM; however, its benefits in comparison to the classic procedure are unknown.In...

OBJECTIVES This study was designed to compare the hemodynamic efficacy of nonsurgical septal reduction therapy (NSRT) by intracoronary ethanol with standard therapy (surgical myectomy) for the treatment of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM). BACKGROUND Nonsurgical septal reduction therapy has gained interest as a new treatment modality for patients with drug-refractory symptoms of...

Septal myectomy effectively relieves left ventricular outflow tract obstruction (LVOTO) and cardiac symptoms in both adults and children with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Abnormal attachments of the papillary muscles and chordae and other cardiac lesions can be repaired at the same time. Early mortality for isolated septal myectomy in both children and adults is low (0% to 2.5...

PURPOSE To establish the surgical results and residual symptoms in 48 cases with unilateral congenital superior oblique muscle palsy that had surgical intervention to the vertical muscles alone. METHODS Myectomy and concomitant disinsertion of the inferior oblique (IO) muscle was performed in 38 cases and myectomy and concomitant IO disinsertion and recession of the superior rectus muscle in ...

AIM To investigate changes in fundus excyclotorsion after inferior oblique myectomy or myotomy. METHODS The records of 21 patients undergoing strabismus surgery by a single surgeon between 2009 and 2012 were examined. Only patients who had undergone an inferior oblique myectomy or myotomy, with or without horizontal rectus muscle surgery, were evaluated. Digital fundus photographs were obtain...