[HSF] HOCM with coronary disease

[Nasser F. Abou'Seada]

Excellent drawing ... thanks Mark 
yes  Cat's paws

NFA

> From: Mark Levinson
> >>   To assist in
> >> delivering the muscular bulge, I  take a Senn retractor with sharp
> >> hooks (I guess others call this a "cats claw").    its a retractor
> >> available in just about any plastic surgery or general surgery
> >> set.       I engage the sharp hooks of this retractor into the septal
> >> muscle under the far extent of the bulge.
> Nand:
 
> This maneuver can be hard to visualize, so I borrowed a drawing from
> this
> excellent (and comprehensive) review of surgery for HOCM:
> 
> Sherrid MV, Chaudhry FA, Swistel DG.  Obstructive Hypertrophic
> Cardiomyopathy:  Echocardiography,
> Pathophysiology, and the Continuing Evolution of Surgery for
> Obstruction.   Ann Thoracic Surgery 75: 620-32, 2003
> 
> This will explain what I could not find the words for:
> 
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