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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy can achieve good long-term outcomes with alcohol septal ablation that rival those of surgical treatment in terms of symptom relief and survival, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The occurrence of high-grade conduction disturbances after alcohol septal ablation (ASA) did not translate into worse long-term survival for people with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), ...

—Surgical ventricular septal reduction or alcohol septal ablation therapy? A study in France tapped a nationwide database to better describe and compare the safety of the 2 septal reduction therapy ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, septal reduction therapy was associated with reduced ...

Treating patients with HCM is guided by how severe symptoms are, whether a patient has any risk factors for sudden cardiac death, and whether a patient has cardiac arrhythmias and other associated ...

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 ...