Left Ventricular Outflow Obstruction After Mitral Valve Replacement Preserving Native Anterior Leaflet Kazuma Okamoto, MD, Issei Kiso, MD, PhD, Yoshihito Inoue, MD, PhD, Hideki Matayoshi, MD, Ryuichi Takahashi, MD, PhD, Yasuhiro Umezu, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 82, Issue 2, Pages 735-737 (August 2006) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.10.006 Copyright © 2006 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 (A) The transthoracic echocardiography and (B) the M-mode echocardiography showed left ventricular outflow tract obstruction due to (C) systolic anterior motion of the preserved anterior leaflet of native mitral valve. (AML = anterior mitral leaflet.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2006 82, 735-737DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.10.006) Copyright © 2006 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions