Acquired cardiovascular disease
Characteristics and surgical outcomes of symptomatic patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with abnormal papillary muscle morphology undergoing papillary muscle reorientation

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Objective

In patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with bifid hypermobile papillary muscles and a dynamic left ventricular outflow tract gradient, we performed surgical papillary muscle reorientation, fixing the mobile papillary muscle to the posterior left ventricle to reduce mobility. We report the outcomes of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy undergoing surgical papillary muscle reorientation versus those of patients undergoing standard surgical procedures.

Methods

We studied 204 consecutive patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy undergoing surgical intervention (after consensus decision) for symptomatic left ventricular outflow tract gradient. Preoperative and postoperative maximal (resting/provocable) left ventricular outflow tract gradients were recorded by using echocardiographic analysis.

Results

The population was divided into 3 groups: (1) isolated myectomy (n = 143; age, 54 ± 14 years; 48% men), (2) myectomy plus mitral valve repair/replacement (n = 39; age, 54 ± 13 years; 54% men), and (3) papillary muscle reorientation with or without myectomy (n = 22; age, 50 ± 14 years; 59% men). The mean preoperative (103 ± 32, 103 ± 32, and 114 ± 36 mm Hg; P = .3) and predischarge (15 ± 18, 14 ± 14, and 16 ± 21 mm Hg; P = .9) maximal left ventricular outflow tract gradients were similar. There were no deaths either in the hospital or at 30 days. At a median follow-up of 166 days (interquartile range, 74–343 days), 21 of 22 patients in group 3 were asymptomatic. One patient in group 3 had a symptomatic left ventricular outflow tract gradient (87 mm Hg) requiring mitral valve replacement.

Conclusions

In patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with bifid hypermobile papillary muscles (even with a basal septal thickness <1.5 cm), papillary muscle reorientation reduces the symptomatic left ventricular outflow tract gradient. Long-term outcomes need to be ascertained.

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Abbreviations and Acronyms

CMR
cardiac magnetic resonance
HCM
hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
LVOT
left ventricular outflow tract
SAM
systolic anterior motion

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