Mitral Systolic Anterior Motion: Beyond Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery

• 17/05/2024

  Haemodynamic instability and shock are a potential everyday challenge for intensivists and anaesthesiologists. Understanding the underlying cause is pivotal for an appropriate and successful treatment. Systolic motion of the anterior mitral valve leaflet towards the left ventricular outflow tract (SAM) is a possible insidious mechanism of low cardiac output, severe haemodynamic instability,...