THE electrocardiographic findings resulting from infarction of the interventricular septum were recently described by Roesler and Dressler.‡ These investigators found that when the septum was involved ...

AMONG the complications that may plague the patient with myocardial infarction, there are few more dramatic or serious than rupture through an infarct involving the interventricular septum. To be sure ...

Future Cardiol. 2013;9(5):697-709. It is extremely important to detect the presence and severity of LVOT obstruction from physical examination, as well as 2D and Doppler echocardiography. The LVOT ...

MRI-derived septal ECC is effective in detecting early cardiac dysfunction in DMD, surpassing traditional measures like LVEF. Cine DENSE MRI revealed reduced septal ECC in patients with DMD without ...

Background A 42-year-old woman with a 20-year history of obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy was referred for alcohol septal ablation following a worsening of symptoms, which had persisted despite ...

"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by physicians, meant for the medical team as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this journey through a disease state contains ...

In patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, a percutaneous procedure in which alcohol is injected to occlude a septal branch produces low in-hospital mortality as well as sustained ...

An anterior myocardial infarction results from occlusion of the left anterior descending coronary artery. This can cause an ST elevation myocardial infarction or a non-ST segment elevation myocardial ...

The patient’s exercise echocardiogram showed mild mitral valve insufficiency. A specialist recommended placement of an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, but the patient chose to wait and see. Mr ...