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Clinical progress after randomized on/off pacemaker treatment for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy

Author(s) -

L Kappenberger

Publication year - 1999

Publication title -

ep europace

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.119

H-Index - 102

eISSN - 1532-2092

pISSN - 1099-5129

DOI - 10.1053/eupc.1998.0024

Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , refractory (planetary science) , obstructive cardiomyopathy , myotomy , heart failure , angina , hypertrophic cardiomyopathy , surgery , myocardial infarction , achalasia , esophagus , physics , astrobiology

The therapeutic options for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) classically include medical treatment with beta-blockers and calcium antagonists or myectomy-myotomy as a surgical possibility for refractory cases. The observation that pacemaker activation of the heart in HOCM reduces the subaortic gradient is well known but less well investigated.

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