The role of myocardial contrast echocardiography in choosing between alcohol septal ablation and surgical myectomy for the treatment of patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy ...

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 ...

27 When considering a patient for myectomy or alcohol septal ablation (ASA), a complete preprocedural echo study should address, first, the mechanism of obstruction, second, the extension of ...

Male fruit flies that drink alcohol become more attractive to females, according to a new study. Adding alcohol to males' food increases their release of chemicals that attract females and leads ...

For patients with atrial fibrillation and obesity, lifestyle modification plus antiarrhythmic drug therapy conferred various ...

But over the past decade, new studies and public health warnings have called that conventional wisdom into question, stating emphatically that no level of alcohol consumption could be considered ...

Some changes can be benign, such as dry skin or flushing. However, prolonged alcohol use can cause other complications that affect the skin, such as liver disease. Alcohol can also worsen existing ...

Typically, doctors advise that people minimize alcohol while they take metformin. Both alcohol and metformin put stress on the liver, intensifying the effects of both. Metformin is a medication ...

Thermal ablation is a treatment for primary liver cancer. Primary liver cancer is different to cancer that spreads to your liver from somewhere else in your body. This is called secondary liver cancer ...

What Is the Maze Procedure (Surgical Ablation)? If you have an irregular heartbeat caused by atrial fibrillation (AFib), you may need surgery to restore your normal heart rhythm. This is called ...