HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS		QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced] Author: Keyword(s): Year:  Vol:  Page:

This Article Full Text Full Text (PDF) Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Personal Folders Download to citation manager Author home page(s): Thierry Carrel Permission Requests Google Scholar Articles by Carrel, T. Articles by Schmidli, J. PubMed Articles by Carrel, T. Articles by Schmidli, J. Related Collections Cardiac - other Myocardial infarction

Case reports

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

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Berne, CH-3010 Berne, Switzerland

Received 28 October 2008; received in revised form 16 March 2009; accepted 17 March 2009.

^_* Corresponding author. Tel.: +41 31 632 23 75; fax: +41 31 632 44 43. (Email: thierry.carrel{at}insel.ch).

Interventional 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.

Key Words: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy • Coil embolisation • Alcohol ablation • Surgery • Complications