Abstract
BACKGROUND - : We report the predictors of long-term outcomes of symptomatic hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients undergoing surgical relief of left ventricular outflow tract obstruction. METHODS AND RESULTS - : We studied 699 consecutive patients who have hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with severe symptomatic left ventricular outflow tract obstruction (47±11 years, 63% male) intractable to maximal medical therapy, who were referred to a tertiary hospital between January 1997 and December 2007 for the surgical relief of left ventricular outflow tract obstruction. We excluded patients
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 209-216 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Circulation |
Volume | 128 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 16 2013 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Cardiomyopathy
- Hypertrophic
- Outcome assessment (health care)
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physiology (medical)
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine