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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In addition to stable patients, those at high risk of surgical morbidity and mortality (including patients of advanced age or with comorbidities such as pulmonary or renal disease) can be evaluated ...

We report the case of a 56-year-old man who had sudden palpitations, lightheadedness, chest pain, and dyspnea. Paramedics arrived within about 10 minutes after the onset of symptoms and found that the ...

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), ...

Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine have published a study in the Journal of the American Heart Association that focuses on how the volume of ...

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 invasive ...

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 ...