Treatment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Havndrup, O.; Bundgaard, H.; Hansen, F.V.; Pietersen, A.H.; Kelbaek, H.S.
Ugeskrift for Laeger 160(38): 5495-5500
1998
ISSN/ISBN: 0041-5782 PMID: 9763923 Document Number: 497452
The medical management of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is reviewed. Four cases of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy are presented, and serve to describe the currently available invasive treatment modalities, i.e. septal myectomy, dual chamber pacing, cardioverter defibrillator implantation and heart transplantation. These different invasive treatments all seem to be symptomatically effective in carefully selected patients, but studies of prognostic effects are not available. Finally, new experimental procedures are presented.