Choosing appropriate therapy for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy can be challenging. What does 10-year follow-up data looking at over 600 patients treated with alcohol septal ablation show?

Most worrisome is the finding that appropriate discharges occurred in 10.3%/year in patients who had had alcohol septal ablation and in only 2.6%/year in those with surgical septal myectomy.

The absence of left ventricular hypertrophy precluded septal myectomy or alcohol septal ablation. Mitral valve replacement was considered, but after discussion with the patient a dual-chamber ...

Anantapur: A 40-year-old farmer from Tadipatri, experiencing symptoms of heart failure, was diagnosed with Hypertrophic ...

Objectives: To examine whether percutaneous alcohol septal ablation affects coronary flow reserve (CFR) in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Methods: CFR was measured immediately before ...

I read with interest the report by Lakkis et al 1 on transcatheter alcohol septal ablation for patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM). However, 11 (33%) of their 33 patients ...

Percutaneous septal ablation In 1994, a new percutaneous catheter-based technique for reducing left ventricular outflow tract gradients was proposed. 62 The aim was to infuse alcohol into the septal ...

People with AFib have a five-times increased risk of stroke compared to people without it, and the strokes can be more severe ...

New study links alcohol consumption to pancreatic cancer risk, adding to the surgeon general's list of seven cancer types associated with drinking alcohol.