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Advances in Interventional Cardiology/Postępy w Kardiologii Interwencyjnej
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Will the Mitral Clip become the invasive treatment of choice for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy?

Mohamad Alkhouli

Postep Kardiol Inter 2014; 10, 3 (37): 153–154
Online publish date: 2014/09/11
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Left ventricular outflow tract obstruction (LVOTO) in classic hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy is caused by a combination of septal hypertrophy and systolic anterior motion of the mitral valve (SAM). Invasive treatment of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) is reserved for patients with severe drug refractory symptoms and LVOTO, and has historically aimed to reduce the thickness of the basal septum of the left ventricle as a primary cause of LVOTO (septal reduction therapy). Surgical myectomy is highly successful in decreasing LVOTO and considered the invasive therapy of choice for HOCM. Alcohol-induced localised infarction of the basal septum, also known as alcohol septal ablation (ASA), is a percutaneous alternative in poor surgical candidates. When performed by highly experienced operators, surgical myectomy and ASA both have low mortality and high success rates.
Systolic anterior motion of the mitral valve contributes significantly to the development of LVOTO in HOCM patients, and invasive techniques to correct SAM such as mitral valve repair (MVrep) might be as effective as septal reduction therapy in relieving the LVOTO. Until recently, however, MVrep in the treatment of HOCM has been limited to patients undergoing septal myectomy, and have an associated degenerative mitral valve disease. In a large series of HOCM patients undergoing surgical myectomy, only 32 out of 791 patients (4%) had concomitant MVrep or replacement, and all of those patients had associated degenerative mitral disease [1].
Recent reports of using the Alferi edge-to-edge repair in conjunction with septal myectomy in HOCM patients without degenerative mitral valve disease have shown promising results [2–4]. Since the Alferi technique was only performed concomitantly with septal myectomy, it is difficult to know weather surgical edge-to-edge repair of the mitral valve alone is sufficient to treat HOCM patients with refractory symptoms.
In 2003, a patient with mitral valve prolapse and severe mitral regurgitation was treated with a percutaneous edge-to-edge MVrep using a novel system – the MitraClip. The safety and effectiveness of the MitraClip in treating various causes of mitral regurgitation (MR) is under ongoing investigations. Because SAM of the mitral valve is a major player in the symptomatology of HOCM and patients with this condition usually do not have associated organic mitral valve pathology, it is intuitive to think that the...


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