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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, septal reduction therapy was associated with reduced ...

Over the long term, patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) who require a permanent pacemaker after alcohol septal ablation (ASA) fare just as well as those who don’t, a ...

—Surgical ventricular septal reduction or alcohol septal ablation therapy? A study in France tapped a nationwide database to better describe and compare the safety of the 2 septal reduction therapy ...

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), ...

Septal Ablation Septal ablation is a minimally invasive alternative to septal myectomy. The procedure involves injecting alcohol through a catheter (a thin, flexible tube) to a targeted area of ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is an inherited condition that affects up to 750,000 people in the United States. It often involves left ventricular outflow tract obstruction. Septal reduction therapies ...

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 ...

Septal myectomy removes part of a thickened septum to treat hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) with left ventricular outflow tract obstruction. It can improve severe symptoms that do not respond to ...

When medications aren’t doing enough to manage your hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), surgical procedures can offer real relief. HCM is a genetic heart condition in which parts of the heart muscle ...