Extended myectomy for apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a case report

Table 1 Comparison of the two aHCM and LVOTO cases

	aHCM	LVOTO
Cause of decreasing SV	LVDEV↓	LVOTS, SAM
Difficulties of procedure	Invisible	More visible
Surgical complications	Mitral valve injury, ventricular septal perforation, left coronary injury	Aortic valve injury, ventricular septal perforation

aHCM, apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; LVEDV, left ventricular end-diastolic volume; LVOTO, left ventricular outflow tract obstruction; LVOTS, left ventricular outflow tract stenosis; SAM, systolic anterior motion; SV, stroke volume

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