Posterior Papillary Muscle Suspension for Treating Systolic Anterior Motion in Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy.

Systolic anterior motion of the anterior mitral leaflet can persist after ventricular septal myectomy for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, resulting in residual pressure gradients and mitral regurgitation. However, additional procedures for systolic anterior motion involving mitral valve leaflet suturing and resection may lead to future valve disease. Therefore, we adopted posterior papillary muscle suspension, a subvalvular procedure for functional mitral regurgitation, to treat systolic anterior motion without directly intervening in the mitral valve leaflets.

[Redo Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass for Postoperative Vein Graft Stenosis of Anomalous Origin of the Left Coronary Artery from the Pulmonary Artery;Report of a Case].

Bland-White-Garland (BWG) syndrome (anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery) is a rare disease which may result in myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure or sometimes death during the early infantile period. We present a 57-year-old female with BWG syndrome. At the age of 20, she was diagnosed with BWG syndrome and underwent coronary artery bypass grafting of a saphenous vein to the proximal portion of the anterior descending branch of the left coronary artery and ligation of the anomalous artery.

[Optimal indication for surgical ventricular restoration for dilated cardiomyopathy].

In this study, we assessed mid-term results of surgical ventricular restoration (SVR) for dilated cardiomyopathy. The study subjects were 107 patients who underwent SVR for both ischemic (ischemic cardiomyopathy:ICM, n=57) and non-ischemic (dilated cardiomyopathy:DCM, n=50) dilated cardiomyopathy. In 49(86%)patients ICM was associated with New York heart Association(NYHA) class III or more.