Selective contrast echocardiography in percutaneous transluminal septal myocardial ablation in an elderly patient with left ventricular concentric hypertrophy

Echocardiography. 2003 Aug;20(6):563-6. doi: 10.1046/j.1540-8175.2003.03096.x.

Abstract

We report an elderly patient, with hypertension and left ventricular concentric hypertrophy with sigmoid shape of the septum, who presented an unsatisfactory response to medical treatment and who was successfully submitted to myocardial contrast echocardiography-guided percutaneous transluminal septal myocardial ablation.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Catheter Ablation*
  • Echocardiography*
  • Heart Septum / surgery*
  • Humans
  • Hypertension / complications
  • Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / complications
  • Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / diagnostic imaging
  • Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / surgery*
  • Male