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Systolic anterior motion of mitral anterior leaflet is a serious clinical condition and it is hard to control medically. Alfieri edge-to-edge repair has been thought one of the useful techniques to improve abnormal anterior systolic motion with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy. Here, we present a 71-year-old lady who had the left ventricular outflow tract obstruction, severe mitral valve regurgitation with systolic anterior motion. The patient had a history of aortic valve replacement 5 years ago. She was successfully treated with transaortic edge-to-edge mitral valve plasty and myectomy of the left ventricle. Postoperative course was uneventful.
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Tsutsumi, Y., Numata, S., Seo, H. et al. Transaortic edge-to-edge mitral valve repair and left ventricular myectomy. Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 61, 223–225 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11748-012-0131-2
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