Preemptive alcohol septal ablation “is a lot less invasive than surgical approaches to this and actually something that I think most interventional cardiologists can do because it is not a terribly ...

Mortality in series of patients having alcohol septal ablation was 1.2% or 1.3%. This conversation features William H. Spencer, III, MD, FACC, who pioneered alcohol septal ablation for HOCM.

Low occurrence of ventricular arrhythmias after alcohol septal ablation in high-risk patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, Clinical Research in Cardiology, 105, 11, (953-961 ...

Cardiology > CHF Aggressive Alcohol Septal Ablation for HCM Holds Up, Pacemakers Notwithstanding — Complication of ablation not associated with worse outcomes at 5 years ...

Veselka J, Liebregts M, Cooper R, et al. Outcomes of patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy and pacemaker implanted after alcohol septal ablation. J Am Coll Cardiol Intv. 2022;Epub ...

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 ...

Septal myectomy was associated with lower rates of redo procedures compared with alcohol septal ablation (HR = 0.1; 95% CI, 0.07-0.15; P < .001), according to the researchers. HF readmission ...

The implications for alcohol septal ablation were even more pronounced. Patients treated by low-volume operators had a three- to fourfold increase in the risk of 30-day mortality and higher rates of ...

The research, led by Nirav Patel, M.D., and colleagues, analyzed more than 5,700 patients across more than 150 academic medical centers in the United State from 2016 to 2022.

A University of Texas at Arlington multidisciplinary team will use a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to research new ways to improve the safety and effectiveness of medical procedures on ...

Until the early 1990s, surgical myectomy represented the standard treatment for patients with HOCM and drug-refractory symptoms. Then in 1995 alcohol septal ablation was introduced as a less ...