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 ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM ... and the extent of SICAD from histopathology of myectomy specimens among 60 symptomatic patients with HCM. Fibrosis was also associated with an increased ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is an inherited condition ... For instance, those who underwent septal myectomy at low-volume centers or by low-volume operators faced nearly double the risk of 30 ...