Surgery Insight: septal myectomy for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy—the Mayo Clinic experience

Septal myectomy has been the gold standard treatment for the relief left ventricular outflow tract obstruction and cardiac symptoms in both adults and children with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. In almost all circumstances, abnormalities of the mitral valve and subvalvar mitral apparatus can be managed without the need for mitral valve replacement, and other cardiac lesions can be repaired simultaneously. In the current era, the...