Reduction of Outflow Tract Obstruction After PCI to Proximal LAD in a Patient With HOCM

Radwan Al Ali, MD; Lama Katmeh, MD; Bruno Scheller, MD; Felix Mahfoud, MD; Michael Böhm, MD; Sebastian Ewen, MD

JACC: Case Reports (Mar 2020)

Reduction of Outflow Tract Obstruction After PCI to Proximal LAD in a Patient With HOCM

Radwan Al Ali, MD,
Lama Katmeh, MD,
Bruno Scheller, MD,
Felix Mahfoud, MD,
Michael Böhm, MD,
Sebastian Ewen, MD

Affiliations

Radwan Al Ali, MD: Address for correspondence: Dr. Radwan Al Ali, Klinik für Innere Medizin III, Kardiologie, Angiologie und Internistische Intensivmedizin, Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes, Kirrberger Strasse 100, 66421 Homburg/Saar, Germany.; Clinic of Internal Medicine III, Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany
Lama Katmeh, MD: Clinic of Internal Medicine III, Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany
Bruno Scheller, MD: Clinic of Internal Medicine III, Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany
Felix Mahfoud, MD: Clinic of Internal Medicine III, Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany
Michael Böhm, MD: Clinic of Internal Medicine III, Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany
Sebastian Ewen, MD: Clinic of Internal Medicine III, Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2, no. 3
pp. 384 – 388

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We present a patient with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy and accompanying aortic valve stenosis who had a myocardial infarction with a significant proximal left anterior descending coronary artery stenosis. The primary percutaneous coronary intervention resulted in a notable improvement in the left ventricular outflow tract gradient and global longitudinal strain. (Level of Difficulty: Beginner.)

Published in JACC: Case Reports

ISSN: 2666-0849 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/jacc-case-reports

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