[Dilated phase of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: high-risk reconstructive surgery as an alternative to heart transplantation]. / Dilatatsionnaya faza gipertroficheskoi kardiomiopatii: rekonstruktivnaya khirurgiya bol'shogo riska kak al'ternativa transplantatsii serdtsa.

The authors report the diagnosis and surgical treatment of 5 patients with dilated phase of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Features of these patients are progressive heart failure, double-level blood flow obstruction and the risk of apical aneurysms. Reconstructive remodeling surgery is a reasonable alternative to heart transplantation despite the existing risk.

[Myocardial Crypt of the Left Ventricle Combined With Barlows syndrome].

Myocardial crypts were initially described in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Modern diagnostic data show that this structural abnormality can be found in patients with other diseases, or might represent the variant of normal heart development in healthy individuals. The prognostic significance of this finding is uncertain. In this publication we present a clinical case of the combination of myocardial crypt and Barlows syndrome.