Background A 42-year-old woman with a 20-year history of obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy was referred for alcohol septal ablation following a worsening of symptoms, which had persisted despite ...

In January 2007, investigators reported the results of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) before and after myectomy (n = 24) or alcohol septal ablation (n = 24). [9] The findings, published in ...

Preemptive alcohol septal ablation appears to lower the risk of life-threatening left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) obstruction in select patients undergoing transcatheter mitral valve replacement ...

Learn about surgical options for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), including septal myectomy, septal ablation, and heart ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Alcohol septal ablation for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy was associated with greater rate of 10-year ...

In addition to stable patients, those at high risk of surgical morbidity and mortality (including patients of advanced age or with comorbidities such as pulmonary or renal disease) can be evaluated ...

For patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy that doesn’t improve with standard therapy, surgery may be the next choice. In France, a new study was conducted to compare the incidence of in-hospital ...

Over the long term, patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) who require a permanent pacemaker after alcohol septal ablation (ASA) fare just as well as those who don’t, a ...

We report the case of a 56-year-old man who had sudden palpitations, lightheadedness, chest pain, and dyspnea. Paramedics arrived within about 10 minutes after the onset of symptoms and found that the ...

The unique beat of each person’s timed ticker has been pronounced just as identifiable as a fingerprint by some biotech companies. And while each heart may beat to a different rhythm, this rhythm ...

A 42-year-old woman with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) was referred for alcohol septal ablation (ASA). She had been diagnosed with HCM 20 years earlier following presentation with ...