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

Background Left ventricular outflow tract obstruction (≥30 mm Hg at rest; LVOTO) is considered a possible risk of long-term outcomes in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). However, the ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Alcohol septal ablation is a minimally invasive procedure for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a condition in which your heart muscle is abnormally thick. The purpose of the procedure is to decrease your ...

Abstract Background— Alcohol septal ablation (ASA) therapy results in clinical and hemodynamic improvement in patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy. However, a subset remains ...

Conclusions— Alcohol septal ablation is an efficacious procedure if performed in an experienced institution and may resolve symptoms in a subset of patients with obstructive hypertrophic ...

The hospital had brought in an expert from Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic to perform an alcohol septal ablation, but during the surgery, “He pulled off his gloves and said nothing can be ...

Objective Outcome data for patients ≥75 years with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) undergoing alcohol septal ablation (ASA) are lacking. Therefore, a retrospective single-centre ...